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The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy
Publication Date: 02/02/2016

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A timeless tale of ruthless ambition from the revered author of "Far from the Madding Crowd" and "Jude the Obscure."
The blind energies and defiant acts that bring an ambitious man to power can also destroy him. This is the theme that Thomas Hardy explores through his greatest and most tragic hero: Michael Henchard, the driven grain merchant of Casterbridge. From his drunken sale of his wife and baby at a county fair to his subjugation of a farming village, Henchard s life is an epic attempt to bring the world to heel as he hides, even from himself, all vestiges of emotional vulnerability. Combining the suspense of a mystery with all the poetry of the greatest English novels, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is a masterpiece of psychological insight and profound tragedy.
Introduction by Elliot Perlman"
ISBN:
9780451477507
9780451477507
Category:
Fiction
Publication Date:
02-02-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
171.45x106.38x25.4mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840. His first published novel was Desperate Remedies in 1871. Such was the success of these early works, which included A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), that he gave up his work as an architect to concentrate on his writing.

However, he had difficulty publishing Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1889) and was forced to make changes in order for it to be judged suitable for family readers. This, coupled with the stormy reaction to the negative tone of Jude the Obscure (1895), prompted Hardy to abandon writing novels altogether and he concentrated on poetry for the rest of his life. He died in January 1928.

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