The Mayor of Casterbridge - Couverture souple

Hardy, Thomas

 
9780007902118: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0007902115 ISBN 13 : 9780007902118
Editeur : William Collins, 2011

Synopsis

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‘The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.’

When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he’s spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man. Hardy portrays Henchard as a tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance from the community around him, posing the overarching question of whether we shape our own fate, or whether life deals us an inevitable hand.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Éditeur
William Collins
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0007902115
ISBN 13 
9780007902118
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
432
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