by Thomas Hardy, Lewis Jones · Collins Educational Glasgow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780003701197
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«The Mayor of Casterbridge» is Thomas Hardy's novel in a graded version by Lewis Jones (Collins Educational, paperback, 112 pages, in English).
Michael Henchard, a young man who, drunk at a fair, sells his wife and daughter, goes on to become mayor of Casterbridge. His past and his character come back to haunt him: the story follows his successes and failures as he tries to redeem himself and wonders to what extent he is guilty of his own fate.
The original novel was published in 1886; this edition is from 1979 and belongs to the Collins English Library collection, level 5, with a vocabulary of 2000 words.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language working with graded readers.
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
