Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Mass Market Paperback
(Pocket Books Jan. 1, 1974)
, 2nd Edition
The Mayor of Casterbridge is set in southwest England, in the Wessex area, shortly before 1830. It tells the story of Michael Henchard, an iternerant laborer who, in a moment of drunken despair, sells his wife at an auction. After Henchard has become prosperous, his act of inhumanity comes back to haunt him, and finally to destroy him. This record of an anguished soul, as it struggles hopelessly against a relentless, fatal retribution, makes one of the great novels of the English language. An Enriched Classics Edition.
- ISBN
- 0671479660 / 9780671479664
- Pages
- 332
- Weight
- 7.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 4.2
in.