by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620290
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«The Mayor of Casterbridge» is Thomas Hardy's classic novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (400 pages, in English).
At a rural fair, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter for five guineas in a drunken fit of rage. Years later, now a prosperous and respected mayor of Casterbridge, the secret of his past and his proud, self-destructive character threaten his position.
Originally published in 1886, it is one of Thomas Hardy's novels set in the fictional county of Wessex.
Intended for readers of Victorian classics and nineteenth-century English literature.
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.
