Mayor of Casterbridge (The Penguin English Library)

Type

Book

Authors

Thomas Hardy

ISBN 10

014062029X

ISBN 13

9780140620290

Tags

Classics, Criticism & Theory, Literary

Description

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. - from Amzon

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