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Signet
February 2016
On Sale: February 2, 2002
ISBN: 0451477502 EAN: 9780451477507 Kindle: B00AFZ3P3Y Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Literature and Fiction
One of Hardyβs most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchardβhaving gained power and success as the mayorβfinds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin.
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