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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair.

Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper.

Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

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Product Details
Penguin Classics
0141197811 / 9780141197814
Paperback
24/02/2011
111 x 181 mm, 209 grams
Quiz No: 200466, Points 22.00, Book Level 9.50,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More