Bibliograph

The mayor of Casterbridge, the life and death of a man of character, Thomas Hardy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson

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The mayor of Casterbridge, the life and death of a man of character, Thomas Hardy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. xlii-[xliv])

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The mayor of Casterbridge

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Thomas Hardy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson

Series statement

Penguin classics

Sub title

the life and death of a man of character

Summary

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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