The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy - ISBN: 9781857151480
Hardcover
A mayor’s rise and fall through love in rural England.

The Mayor Of Casterbridge

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  • Hardcover

    408 pages

  • Release Date

    25 June 1993

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Summary

D H Lawrence remarked that Hardy’s best novels were about ‘the struggle into love and the struggle with love’, and THE MAYOR OF CASTLEBRIDGE is no exception. One of the long series of Wessex tales that include FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, it is the story of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard and the women with whom he searches for happiness in the harsh world of the nineteenth-century rural England.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781857151480
ISBN-10:1857151488
Author:Thomas Hardy
Publisher:Everyman
Imprint:Everyman's Library
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:408
Release Date:25 June 1993
Weight:505g
Dimensions:211mm x 133mm x 28mm
Series:Everyman's Library CLASSICS
About The Author

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840. His father was a stonemason. He was brought up near Dorchester and trained as an architect. In 1868 his work took him to St Juliot’s church in Cornwall where he met his wife-to-be, Emma. His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected by publishers but Desperate Remedies was published in 1871 and this was rapidly followed by Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). He also wrote many other novels, poems and short stories. Tess of the D’Urbervilles was published in 1891. His final novel was Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy was awarded the Order of Merit in 1920 and the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1912. His wife died in 1912 and he later married his secretary. Thomas Hardy died 11 January 1928.

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