With an Introduction & Notes by Michael Irwin Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid & readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex the 'partly real partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset it charts the rise & self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character' The fast-moving & ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force & features some of the author's most striking episodes & brilliant passages of description ...

A haunting study of guilt & lost love in Penguin Classics Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is edited with an introduction & notes by Keith Wilson In a fit of drunken anger Michael Henchard sells his wife & baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair Over the course of the following years he manages to establish himself as a respected & prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past & a personality prone to self-destructive pride & temper Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character' Hardy's powerful & 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 This edition

Includes:: an introduction chronology of Hardy's life & works the illustrations for the original serial issue place names maps glossary full explanatory notes as well as Hardy's prefaces to the 1895 & 1912 editions Thomas 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) & 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 & his epic drama in verse The Dynasts If 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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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Thomas Hardy&s powerful tale of a rich & respectable man who auctions his wife & child at a West Country fair The remorse of the Mayor of Casterbridge finally destroys him Screened in over 30 countries ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night & decide to play a harmless game of tag Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along When the body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong As they race to find the entrance of the maze the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the mazealive? ...

Thomas (Dylan O& Brien) a teenager arrives in a glade at the center of a giant labyrinth Like the other youths dumped there before him he has no memory of his previous life Thomas quickly becomes part of the group & soon after demonstrates a unique perspective that scores him a promotion to Runner status -- those who patrol the always-changing maze to find an escape route Together with Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) the only female Thomas tries to convince his cohorts that he knows a way out ...

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When the doors of the lift crank open the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name But he's not alone He's surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade
- a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre & terrible stone maze Like Thomas the Gladers don't know why or how they came to be there
- or what's happened to the world outside All they know is that every morning when the walls slide back they will risk everything
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When the doors of the lift crank open the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name But he's not alone He's surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade
- a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre & terrible stone maze Like Thomas the Gladers don't know why or how they came to be there
- or what's happened to the world outside All they know is that every morning when the walls slide back they will risk everything
- even the Grievers half-machine half-animal horror that patrol its corridors to try & find out


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Thomas (Dylan O& Brien) a teenager arrives in a glade at the center of a giant labyrinth Like the other youths dumped there before him he has no memory of his previous life Thomas quickly becomes part of the group & soon after demonstrates a unique perspective that scores him a promotion to Runner status -- those who patrol the always-changing maze to find an escape route Together with Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) the only female Thomas tries to convince his cohorts that he knows a way out ...