The Mayor of Casterbridge |
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Author:
| Hardy, Thomas |
Series title: | Collector's Library |
ISBN: | 978-1-904633-11-2 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
Publisher: | Pan Macmillan
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Imprint: | Collector's Library, The |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $16.99 |
Book Description:
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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the backdrop of a close-knit Dorset town.
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the backdrop of a close-knit Dorset town.