Mayor of Casterbridge

In "The Mayor of Casterbridge," Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the years, he becomes a respected and prosperous pillar of the community, but his past and personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper remain a shameful secret. Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of Henchard is an intensely dramatic work set in a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

Format: Hardback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 06 September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

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.

Weight: 592g
Dimension: 173 x 126 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241347775