The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas hardy - Collection Penguin classics

375 pages, parution le 05/08/1963

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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.

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'

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.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Formerly a prize-winning architectural student, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) went on to become a prolific novelist and poet. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a powerful and sympathetic psychological study of a heroic but flawed man, set against the compellingly vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

Hardy's novels Under the Greenwood Tree , Far from the Madding Crowd , The Return of the Native , Two on a Tower , Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure are also published in the Penguin English Library.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Penguin
Auteur(s)	Thomas hardy
Collection	Penguin classics
Parution	05/08/1963
Nb. de pages	375
Format	12 x 19
Couverture	Broché
Poids	274g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780141199597