by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141439785
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«The Mayor of Casterbridge» is Thomas Hardy's novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Michael Henchard, a laborer of violent temper, sells his wife and daughter at a fair. Years later he becomes mayor of Casterbridge, but the memory of that act, his pride and his bad temper drag him into an inevitable downfall. Thomas Hardy portrays with compassion a man of character and the rural community that admires him.
Novel originally published in 1886. This Penguin Classics edition, edited by Keith Wilson, includes an introduction, maps, glossary and notes.
Recommended for readers interested in the Victorian novel, historical fiction and classics of 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.
