by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140435139
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«The Mayor of Casterbridge» is the classic novel by English writer Thomas Hardy, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Michael Henchard, a drunken labourer, sells his wife and daughter at a fair. Years later, now mayor of Casterbridge, his past returns and his self-destructive pride leads him to ruin. The novel portrays rural life in Victorian England and the weight of fate.
Subtitled The Life and Death of a Man of Character. Casterbridge belongs to the semi-fictional county of Wessex and is based on Dorchester, Dorset.
A work of Victorian English fiction, for readers of classics and Thomas Hardy.
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.
