
Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
Title:
Mayor of Casterbridge
Author:
Thomas Hardy
Series (if any):
Penguin Clothbound Classics
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
448 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780241347775
EAN:
9780241347775
Publication Date:
06/09/2018
Classifications:
Classic and Biographical
Weight (g):
688
Dimensions (mm):
173 x 126 x 38
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Part of Penguin''s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.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.






























