Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

A rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin.

One of Hardy's most powerful novels, THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE opens with a shocking and haunting scene- in a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard - having gained power and success as the mayor - finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Thomas Hardy

Tennessee

From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power–only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’s Lord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction.

The moving, humane tragedy of a deeply flawed and self-destructive man, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the story of Michael Henchard, who sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair in a fit of drunken anger.

Category - Fiction / General Fiction

Format - Paperback

Condition - Fair

Listed - 2 years ago

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Ships From - Washington

Est. Publication Date - Mar 1981

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