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The Mayor Of Casterbridge By Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 2003)
A haunting study of guilt and lost love in Penguin Classics Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith WilsonIn 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 townThis edition
includes an introduction chronology of Hardy's life and works the illustrations for the original serial issue place names maps glossary full explanatory notes as well as Hardy's prefaces to the 1895 and 1912 editionsThomas Hardy (1840-1928) born Higher Brockhampton near Dorchester originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer Though he saw himself primarily as a poet Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century's major novels The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and Jude the Obscure (1895) Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse The
DynastsIf you enjoyed The Mayor of Casterbridge you might like George Eliot's Silas Marner also available in Penguin Classics'The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists'Virginia Woolf'Visceral passionate anti-hypocrisy anti-repression Hardy reaches into our wildest recesses'Evening Standard
includes an introduction chronology of Hardy's life and works the illustrations for the original serial issue place names maps glossary full explanatory notes as well as Hardy's prefaces to the 1895 and 1912 editionsThomas Hardy (1840-1928) born Higher Brockhampton near Dorchester originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer Though he saw himself primarily as a poet Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century's major novels The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and Jude the Obscure (1895) Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse The
DynastsIf you enjoyed The Mayor of Casterbridge you might like George Eliot's Silas Marner also available in Penguin Classics'The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists'Virginia Woolf'Visceral passionate anti-hypocrisy anti-repression Hardy reaches into our wildest recesses'Evening Standard
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