{"product_id":"the-mayor-of-casterbridge-1968-folio-society-285","title":"The Mayor of Casterbridge (1968)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55216398958931,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55421108060499,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/the-mayor-of-casterbridge-1968-folio-society-285","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}