The Mayor of Casterbridge

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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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

One of Hardy's most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard--having gained power and success as the mayor--finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative 1912 Wessex edition, as well as Hardy's map of Wessex.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Cover of: The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge
2014, W F Howes Ltd
in English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
July 27, 2010, Vintage Classics
Paperback
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Cover of: The mayor of Casterbridge
The mayor of Casterbridge
2006, Elibron Classics
in English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
2005, Random House Publishing Group
eBook in English
Cover of: The mayor of Casterbridge
The mayor of Casterbridge
1998, G.K. Hall
in English - Large print ed.
Cover of: Mayor of Casterbridge (New Windmill Classics)
Mayor of Casterbridge (New Windmill Classics)
June 22, 1993, Heinemann Educational Secondary Division
Hardcover - New Ed edition
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The mayor of Casterbridge
1983, Dent
in English
Cover of: The mayor of Casterbridge
The mayor of Casterbridge
1983, Dent
in English
Cover of: The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge
1972, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
Cover of: The mayor of Casterbridge
The mayor of Casterbridge
1964, Heritage Press

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OL24288666M
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9780553902136
OCLC/WorldCat
276452073
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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 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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