The Mayor of Casterbridge (1968)

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1968)
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1968)

Thomas Hardy
Edition year 1968
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Peter Reddick
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 336
Dimensions 22.8 × 14.8 cm

Edition details

The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy. 36 wood-engravings by Peter Reddick. Bound in dark brown cloth decorated in green with a corn dolly motif, dark brown leather spine-label. Brown map endleaves. Brown slipcase. 22.8x14.8cm. 336pp.

About the book

Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge follows Michael Henchard, a proud and impulsive man whose youthful mistake shapes the rest of his life. In a moment of drunken recklessness, Henchard sells his wife and child to another man, an act he later deeply regrets. Years later, having become a prosperous merchant and mayor, Henchard is forced to confront the consequences of his past. Hardy explores fate, character, guilt, pride and the instability of fortune in a tragic story of a man repeatedly undone by his own temperament.

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