
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 10. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-19-284071-4 (ISBN)
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Description
'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love. This edition is the only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Readers and students of Victorian fiction, the novel, cultural studies, Hardy, regional literature, nineteenth-century literature
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
1 map
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-284071-4 (9780192840714)
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Thomas Hardy | Dale Kramer
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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PAMELA DALZIEL, Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia, and DALE KRAMER, Lecturer in English literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign