The Mayor of Casterbridge
of Thomas Hardy, Keith Wilson (Introduction and Notes)
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âIâve not always been what I am nowâIn 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 âA Story of a Man of Characterâ, Hardyâs 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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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 445 pages
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date March 27th 2003
- First Publication 10/28/86
- Language English
- ISBN 9780141439785
- Edition Penguin Classics
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['United Kingdom', 'Wessex, England', 'Casterbridge, England']
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