432 pages
English language
Published Nov. 21, 1887 by S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Thomas Hardy: The mayor of Casterbridge (1887, S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington)
- OCLC Number:
- 4721460
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.
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.
Subjects
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Runaway husbands -- Fiction
- Men -- England -- Fiction
- Atonement -- Fiction
- Mayors -- Fiction
- Wessex (England) -- Fiction