Binding: Paperback
Description: Hardy's is a world that can never disappear Margaret Drabble Subtitled A Story of a Man of Character' Hardy's powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an intensely dramatic work tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close - knit Dorsetshire town. Its events are set in motion when in a fit of drunken anger 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 pillar of the community of Casterbridge but behind his success lurks the shameful secret of his past. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wilson
Title: The Mayor Of Casterbridge
Author(s): Hardy Thomas, Keith Wilson
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141439785
Pages: 448 Pages
Publication Date: 4/29/2003
Category: Classic Fiction