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''Hardy''s is a world that can never disappear'' Margaret Drabble

Subtitled ''A Story of a Man of Character'', Hardy''s powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. Its events are set in motion when, in a fit of drunken anger, 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 pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success lurks the shameful secret of his past.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wilson



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“Hardy’s world is a world that can never disappear.” —Margaret Drabble

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 27/03/2003
    ISBN13: 9780141439785, 978-0141439785
    ISBN10: 0141439785
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    Book Synopsis

    ''Hardy''s is a world that can never disappear'' Margaret Drabble

    Subtitled ''A Story of a Man of Character'', Hardy''s powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. Its events are set in motion when, in a fit of drunken anger, 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 pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success lurks the shameful secret of his past.

    Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wilson



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    “Hardy’s world is a world that can never disappear.” —Margaret Drabble

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