The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Life and Death of a Man of Character
Author: Thomas Hardy and Keith Wilson Series: Penguin Classics
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In drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby at a country fair. Over the following years, he establishes himself as a pillar of society but his shameful secret is never to leave him. Containing one of Hardy's most memorable characters, the novel also gives a picture of Victorian country life.
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Penguin Classics relaunch.
In drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby at a country fair. Over the following years, he establishes himself as a pillar of society but his shameful secret is never to leave him. Containing one of Hardy's most memorable characters, the novel also gives a picture of Victorian country life.
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Penguin Classics relaunch.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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“"Hardy's world is a world that can never disappear." -- Margaret Drabble”
“Hardy’s world is a world that can never disappear.” —Margaret Drabble
About the Author
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 and wrote both poetry and novels, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far From the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure. He died in 1928. Keith Wilson is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa and has edited Hardy's Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories for Penguin Classics.
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