The Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy / ill. Agnes Miller Parker ; introd. by Frank Swinnerton
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Bantam Books , c1981Description: 326 p. ; : 18 cmISBN:- 0553210246
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Fiction / Ficción | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | FIC HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 022539 |
The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past. His wife ultimately returns to offer Henchard the choice of redemption or a further descent into his own self-destructive nature. A dark, complex story, The Mayor of Casterbridge brims with invention, vitality, and even wit.
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