The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge : A Story of a Man of Character
by Hardy, Thomas
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- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Good (Creased Cover)/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0333168828
- ISBN 13
- 9780333168820
- Seller
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Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
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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- Bookfarm (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 571974
- Title
- The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge : A Story of a Man of Character
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (Creased Cover)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0333168828
- ISBN 13
- 9780333168820
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London, UK.
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
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