E-book
The mayor of Casterbridge
Record details
- ISBN: 9781280752209
- ISBN: 1280752203
- ISBN: 0192840711
- ISBN: 0191517941
- ISBN: 9780191517945
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (lxi, 364 pages).
remote - Edition: New ed.
- Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | General Editor's Preface; Map of Hardy's Wessex; Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Thomas Hardy; THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE; Explanatory Notes; Significant Revisions to the Text. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Fiction. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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Other Formats and Editions
- Baker & Taylor
Tragic consequences result from Michael Henchard's impetuous sale of his wife and daughter. - Oxford University Press
Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives.
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.
