In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success, there always lurks the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled A Story of a Man of Character , Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
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- ISBN
9780141029160
- Published
- August 2nd 2007 by Penguin Books Ltd
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 384
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 181 x 113
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