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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 448
Release Date: 2003-04-29
Details: A haunting study of guilt and lost love
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled "A Story of a Man of Character," Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
This edition includes an introduction, chronology of Hardy's life and works, the illustrations for the original serial issue, place names, maps, glossary, full explanatory notes as well as Hardy's prefaces to the 1895 and 1912 editions.
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EAN: 9780141439785
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.8 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.71870697412 Pounds, Width: 1 Inches
