The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 98 full-page plates by Jurriaen Andriessen, Francisco Goya and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. A drunk sells his wife at a country fair, sobers up, swears off drink for twenty-one years and becomes mayor of the town - and then the man who bought her comes back. Hardy took the wife-sale from newspaper reports, where it happened often enough to be a recognized custom, and built the most relentless of his plots on it. Ninety-eight plates of Gainsborough and Bakhuizen, from shipwrecks and coastal quays to country portraits, give the novel's sea of troubles a fitting face.
Complete and unabridged, with 98 full-page plates by Jurriaen Andriessen, Francisco Goya and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. A drunk sells his wife at a country fair, sobers up, swears off drink for twenty-one years and becomes mayor of the town - and then the man who bought her comes back. Hardy...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, and trained as an architect. The reception of Jude the Obscure made him abandon fiction for verse, which he wrote for another thirty years. His works include Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, and trained as an architect. The reception of Jude the Obscure made him abandon fiction for verse, which he wrote for another thirty years. His works include Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the...
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