The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character

Author: Thomas Hardy

Format: Hardback |  448 pages

Dimensions: 13.72 x 3.81 x 20.57 cm

Publication date: 6 Sept. 2018

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.