The Mayor of Casterbridge. A Story of a Man of Character
by Hardy, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Publisher's blue ribbed cloth. bookplate
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Synopsis
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.
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- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 311773
- Title
- The Mayor of Casterbridge. A Story of a Man of Character
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- With Etching by H. MacBeth Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. viii, 406pp. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Publisher's blue ribbed cloth. bookplate
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publsihers, Franklin Square
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- nd
- Keywords
- British | Thomas Hardy
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