![]() Diggory Venn and Thomasin Yeobright are also well-played. ![]() When Tess of the D'Urbervilles was published in book form in 1891, he included scenes that had been cut out of the magazine serialization because they were considered too scandalous. Also outstanding are Clive Owen as the equally tormented Damon Wildeve and Ray Stevenson as Clym Yeobright and the title character. However, starting with The Return of the Native in 1878, Hardy's fiction began to gain a reputation for its salacious treatment of sexual relationships. Watch this heartbreaking film and then (or before), read the book. The first chapter features one of the most shocking events of Victorian. ![]() Probably Hardy’s greatest work, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the tragic story of Michael Henchard, a man who rises to civic prominence but is haunted by his past. ![]() A fantastic work, especially for Hallmark, I agree that had it been made in Hollywood, Catherine would have won her first Oscar long before Chicago. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. I quickly became a Catherine Zeta-Jones fan and sought out her other films. ![]() Later, when I read the book (which soon became my favorite classic novel of all time), and did a research paper on Hardy heroines (Eustacia Vye from The Return of the Native, Bathsheba Everdene from Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess Durbefield from Tess of the D'Urbervilles), I read the description of Eustacia and found that Zeta-Jones was TYPECAST as the seemingly angelic, but ultimately tortmented woman. She looked stunning, nearly perfect in every particular, almost like a flawless Disney heroine. I saw this first when my older sister watched it for a class in high school and I was immediately taken by Catherine Zeta-Jones. ![]()
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