The mayor of Casterbridge
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780192834416
- ISBN10 019283441X
- Type BOOK
- Pages 403
- Collection Oxford World's Classics
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
English LiteratureThe mayor of Casterbridge
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
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.