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Apr 01, 2008 | ISBN 9780451530929 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Apr 01, 2008 | ISBN 9781440637643 Buy
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Apr 01, 2008 | ISBN 9780451530929
Apr 01, 2008 | ISBN 9781440637643
In Thomas Hardy’s classic novel, an ambitious man discovers that the blind energies and defiant acts that brought him to power can also destroy him.
One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as the mayor—finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative 1912 Wessex edition, as well as Hardy’s map of Wessex.
Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester, England. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school…. More about Thomas Hardy
“Hardy’s world is a world that can never disappear.” —Margaret Drabble
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