Thomas Hardy

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Alaska

Drunk and bitter at the world, the young Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor at Weydon Priors fair. Awaking the next morning, he makes a vow to give up drink and mend his ways. Twenty years later, he is the Mayor of Casterbridge: a rich and important figure who little suspects his past is about to find him with a cruel and devastating irony.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels—Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure—he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet’s Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy.

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 / Classics

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Excellent

Listed - 7 days ago

Ships From - Alaska

Est. Publication Date - Sep 2003