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The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge By Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy


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Summary

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, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Summary

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

'Hardy's is a world that can never disappear' Margaret Drabble

Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. Its events are set in motion when, in a fit of drunken anger, 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 pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success lurks the shameful secret of his past.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wilson

The Mayor of Casterbridge Reviews

Hardy's world is a world that can never disappear. -Margaret Drabble

About Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 and wrote both poetry and novels, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far From the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure. He died in 1928. Keith Wilson is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa and has edited Hardy's Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories for Penguin Classics.

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GOR001229844
9780141439785
0141439785
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20030327
448
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