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35%OFFThomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge - 9780241347775 - 9780241347775
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Description for The Mayor of Casterbridge Hardback.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241347775
SKU
9780241347775
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess ... Read more

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For the past decade, Penguin has been producing handsome hardcover versions of their classics (...) both elegant and quirky in shocks of bright color -The New York Times

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