The Mayor Of Casterbridge

Hardy, Thomas

ISBN 10: 014043125X / ISBN 13: 9780140431254

Edité par Penguin, 1988

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Paperback, F. 438pp, a nice fine copy. Dorset set literature in which Hardy again captures the joys of being alive. Henchard, the main character, sells his wife & baby whilst drunk to a sailor. Overcome with remorse vows never to drink again. He rises to the position of Mayor & 18 years later his wife & daughter return, after the sailor has been lost at sea. No happy ending though. 250 grams.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Mayor Of Casterbridge
• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 014043125X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140431254
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: reprint.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 250 grammes

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Synopsis

One of the Wessex tales, this tells the story of the brooding, and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard and the women with whom he searches for happiness in the harsh world of 19th-century rural England.

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.