The mayor of Casterbridge : the life and death of a man of character / Thomas Hardy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson.
Material type:
TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.Description: li, 393 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cmISBN: - 0141439785
- 9780141439785
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adult Book
|
Main Library | Fiction | Hardy, Thomas | Available | 33111005417411 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xlii-[xliv]).