The mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy ; edited with notes by Dale Kramer ; with a new introduction by Pamela Dalziel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Contributor:

Kramer, Dale, 1936-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Separation (Psychology)--Fiction.

Separation (Psychology).

Fathers and daughters--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

Wessex (England)--Fiction.

Wessex (England).

Runaway husbands--Fiction.

Runaway husbands.

Men--England--Fiction.

Men.

England.

Atonement--Fiction.

Atonement.

Mayors--Fiction.

Mayors.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

lxi, 364 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

"Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love." "This edition is the only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Map of Hardy's Wessex x.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0192840711

9780192840714

9780199537037

0199537038

OCLC:

54065103

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