Name: The Mayor of Casterbridge
SKU: 61688526
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Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781546833277

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Physical Book

Author

Thomas Hardy

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

316

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.7 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9781546833277

Synopsis "The Mayor of Casterbridge"

This Hardy tragic novel, published in 1886, was set in the first half of the 19th Century. Not caring about anything or anyone else in the world, drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby girl Eliza-Jane to a sailor. After recovering from his hangover, he repents and desperately searches for his family to no avail. He gives up alcohol, becomes a successful merchant farmer and is elected Mayor of Casterbridge. The former Mrs. Henchard returns with daughter Eliza-Jane years later when the girl is 18. The story takes several u-turns until Henchard's pride gets the best of him, he returns to alcohol and he's ruined emotionally and publicly...

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced in both his novels and his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth

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