The Mayor of Casterbridge (Pocket Penguin Classics) - Softcover
In a fit of anger, Michael sells his wife and daughter for 5 guineas. 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.
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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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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0141029161
- ISBN 13 9780141029160
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages384
- EditorWilson Keith
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