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Thomas Hardy
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Popular Classics) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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400 |
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1994-02-24 |
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014062029X |
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Penguin Books, Limited (UK) |
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0.45 pounds |
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0.59 x 4.37 x 7.13 inches |
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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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