The life and death of the Mayor of Casterbridge
a story of a man of character
by Thomas Hardy
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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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Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Runaway husbands in fiction, Atonement, Mayors in fiction, Atonement in fiction, Runaway husbands, Mayors, Men in fiction, Men, Separation (Psychology), England in fiction, Social life and customs, Psychology, Psycology, Literature, Psychological fiction, Fiction in English, English fiction, Criticism and interpretation, Large type books, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Wessex (england), fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Children's fiction, England, fiction, Hardy, thomas, 1840-1928, Domestic fiction, Manners and customs, Social conditionsPeople
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The Mayor of Casterbridge: the life and death of a man of character
2007, Penguin
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Mayor of Casterbridge (New Windmill Classics)
June 22, 1993, Heinemann Educational Secondary Division
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The life and death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: a story of a man of character
1974, Macmillan
in English
- New Wessex ed. / introduction by Ian Gregor ; notes by Bryn Caless.
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Bibliography: p. 8.
Originally published in 1886; previous editions have title: The Mayor of Casterbridge.
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