num_pages: 384
description: Michael Henchard, Mayor of Casterbridge, is perhaps the greatest of all British author Thomas Hardy s character-creations. As a young man with nothing to lose he sells his wife &amp; child in a fairground auction. Later in life, when he has risen to be mayor &amp; a well-to-do corn-merchant, his past rises up to destroy him. Essentially this is the story of a personal tragedy -- of the rise &amp; fall of a single man, undone by his faults of character &amp; the changing conditions of rural commerce. His struggles against his society &amp; his guilty past have a truly heroic grandeur. This edition includes an in-depth introduction to Thomas Hardy &amp; this novel by Ian Gregor.
language: English
title: Mayor Of Casterbridge
titlecomplete: Mayor Of Casterbridge
characters: Elizabeth-Jane Newson, Donald Farfrae, Susan Henchard, Richard Newson, Michael Henchard, Lucetta Templeman
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 61193
places: Wessex, England, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Diane Pub Co