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The Mayor of Casterbridge: Great Writers on Great Writing
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date July 19, 2001
Pages 335
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780195148107
ISBN-10 019514810X
Dimensions 1 by 4.50 by 6.75 in.
Weight 0.65 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $20.00
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives.
In the stunning opening chapter of The Mayor of Casterbridge, a drunken hay-trusser, Michael Henchard, sells his wife and daughter for five guineas to a sailor. The book follows Henchard who, overcome by guilt after the sale of his wife, swears he will not have another drink of alcohol for twenty years. By hard work, he becomes a wealthy dealer in corn and hay, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. But after eighteen years, his wife and child Elizabeth-Jane return and, from this point on, his fortunes decline, in part through bad luck and in part through his own obstinate nature. In the end, his rival Farfrae has Henchard's business, his house, Lucretta, and he even becomes mayor of Casterbridge. Henchard eventually dies in a miserable hut on Egdon Heath.
This special edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge features a splendid introduction by fiction writer Rick Moody, who calls Hardy's classic "the first great novel about alcoholism."

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9780195148107 | details & prices | 335 pages | 4.50 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $20.00
About: Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives.

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