Mayor of Casterbridge, The (version 2)

By Hardy, Thomas

Book Id: WPLBN0002951788
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Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Mayor of Casterbridge, The (version 2)
Author:	Hardy, Thomas
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Literature
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Mayor of Casterbridge, The (version 2)
Historic Publication Date:	1886
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


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Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural and small-town England in the mid-1800s. In the original subtitle, Hardy called this the story of a man of character, and the central character, Michael Henchard, is one of English fiction's greatest creations. Henchard is deeply developed as a realistic character, but also larger-than-life in the manner of a Greek or Shakespearean tragic hero — huge in his determination and huge in his failings. The novel deals with the struggles between individual will, the hold of the past, and the relentless control of circumstances in a changing society. (Summary by Bruce Pirie)

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Fiction, Literature, Tragedy