The mayor of Casterbridge

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The mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
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The mayor of Casterbridge

an authoritative text, backgrounds criticism

1st ed.
  • 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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Publisher
Norton
Language
English
Pages
436

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The Mayor of Casterbridge
2014, W F Howes Ltd
in English
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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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Mayor of Casterbridge (New Windmill Classics)
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
in English
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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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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 435-436.

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New York
Series
A Norton critical edition

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PZ3.H222 M47, PR4750.M25 M47

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 436 p. :
Number of pages
436

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4908813M
ISBN 10
0393044599
LCCN
76057983
Library Thing
8588883
Goodreads
2381794

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