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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)

 
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)

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A haunting study of guilt and lost love

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.

This edition includes an introduction, chronology of Hardy's life and works, the illustrations for the original serial issue, place names, maps, glossary, full explanatory notes as well as Hardy's prefaces to the 1895 and 1912 editions.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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EAN/ISBN:
9780141439785
Edition:
Reissue
Medium:
Paperback
Number of pages:
448
Publication date:
2003-03-27
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Languages:
english
EAN/ISBN:
9780141439785
Edition:
Reissue
Medium:
Paperback
Number of pages:
448
Publication date:
2003-03-27
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Languages:
english

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