£8.50
Title: The Life and Death of Mayor of Casterbridge
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher : MacMillan & Co Ltd
Publication c1949
Format: Hardback
Condition: Red covers with gilt design and lettering to spine. In good condition with small scuff to top. Pages are clean and mark free. Map of Wessex to frontispiece.
Book measures: 17.5cm x 11cm with 405 pages
1 in stock
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy’s Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth
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.
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