The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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.

Formerly a prize-winning architectural student, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) went on to become a prolific novelist and poet. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a powerful and sympathetic psychological study of a heroic but flawed man, set against the compellingly vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

Hardy's novels Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, Two on a Tower, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure are also published in the Penguin English Library.

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ISBN 13	9780141199597
ISBN 10	0141199598
Title	The Mayor of Casterbridge
Author	Thomas Hardy
Series	The Penguin English Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2012-07-26
Number of pages	384
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