The Mayor of Casterbridge
Book formats
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Hardcover 3 913руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Series
- Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- September 6, 2018
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-34777-5
- GTIN
- 9780241347775
- Weight, g
- 574
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
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. 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 town.