The Mayor of Casterbridge
Author(s): Thomas Hardy
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 lurks 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.
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- : 53783
- : 44793
- : 0.28
- : 02 August 2007
- : 181mm X 113mm X 29mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Thomas Hardy
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 384