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The mayor of Casterbridge; the life and death of a man of character.

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: New York, Modern Library [1950]
Series: Modern Library college editions, T20
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Thomas Hardy's first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge.  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
Mayor of Casterbridge.
New York, Modern Library [1950]
(OCoLC)564403117
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Hardy
OCLC Number: 936993
Description: xxiv, 432 p. front. 19 cm.
Series Title: Modern Library college editions, T20
Responsibility: With an introd. by Samuel C. Chew.

Abstract:

Thomas Hardy's first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past. His wife ultimately returns to offer Henchard the choice of redemption or a further descent into his own self-destructive nature. A dark, complex story, The Mayor of Casterbridge brims with invention, vitality, and even wit.

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