The Mayor of Casterbridge Paperback / softback
by Thomas Hardy
Edited by Dale (Professor of English Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Kramer
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter.
Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge.
Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business.
Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love. This edition is the only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions.
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- Pages:432 pages, 1 map
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2008
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- ISBN:9780199537037
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages, 1 map
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199537037