The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Hardy, Thomas

 
9780241347775: The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0241347777 ISBN 13: 9780241347775
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2018

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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 and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

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Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241347777
ISBN 13 
9780241347775
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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