The mayor of Casterbridge

the life and death of a man of character

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The mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
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The mayor of Casterbridge

the life and death of a man of character

  • 3.55 ·
  • 11 Ratings
  • 55 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 14 Have read

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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Smith, Elder
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
2014, W F Howes Ltd
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
July 27, 2010, Vintage Classics
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The mayor of Casterbridge
2006, Elibron Classics
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The mayor of Casterbridge
1998, G.K. Hall
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June 22, 1993, Heinemann Educational Secondary Division
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The mayor of Casterbridge
1983, Dent
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The mayor of Casterbridge
1983, Dent
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
1972, Pocket Books
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The mayor of Casterbridge
1964, Heritage Press
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First edition; advertising matter wanting. First appeared serially Jan. 2-May 15, 1886 in England and the United States in the Graphic and Harper's weekly respectively. cf. R. L. Purdy. Thomas Hardy: a bibliographical study.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1978. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 23376)

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Library of English literature -- LEL 23376.

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Microform
Pagination
2 v.

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OL13560165M
OCLC/WorldCat
4851950

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