The Mayor of Casterbridge

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

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 lurk 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.

• Author
• Thomas Hardy

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 448

• Series
• Penguin Clothbound Classics

• Publisher
• Penguin Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-241-34777-5

• EAN
• 9780241347775

• Release date
• 2018