The Mayor of Casterbridge

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

an authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

2nd 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
W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
461

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Cover of: The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge
2014, W F Howes Ltd
in English
Cover of: The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge
July 27, 2010, Vintage Classics
Paperback
Cover of: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Cover of: The mayor of Casterbridge
The mayor of Casterbridge
2006, Elibron Classics
in English
Cover of: The Mayor of Casterbridge
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
Cover of: The mayor of Casterbridge
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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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-461).

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New York
Series
A Norton critical edition

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4750 .M25 2001, PR4750.M25 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 461 p. :
Number of pages
461

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6785052M
Internet Archive
mayorofcasterbri0000hard_m6q0
ISBN 10
0393974987
LCCN
00037986
OCLC/WorldCat
43811367
Library Thing
8588883
Goodreads
501261

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