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The Mayor of Casterbridge (New ed.)

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'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter.

Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge.

Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business.

Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love. This edition is the only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions.

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Oxford University Press
0199537038 / 9780199537037
Paperback / softback
823.8
14/08/2008
United Kingdom
English
Classics
lxi, 364 p.
20 cm
Reprint. This ed. originally published: 2004.