false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170459794m/56759.jpg 56759 161 From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power–only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’s Lord Jim... his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wilson. 2390173 book 1886 The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) total:4191|5:1005|4:1570|3:1191|2:315|1:110| 4191 15618 5438 323 5 7 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 08:55:56 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 20:26:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Nov 24 16:39:22 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 16:41:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 31 17:07:27 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 18 20:21:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Sat Jan 26 00:36:52 -0800 2008 Sat May 10 05:05:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Jul 17 15:42:06 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 15:45:59 -0700 2008 3 1 false false Tue Feb 10 08:04:30 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 07:57:10 -0800 2009 The Mayor of Casterbridge serves as literary English grandfather to our own lecherous, lazy, and negligent father of America's longest running cartoon family. Bull-headed, dim-witted, and insolen...more...]]> 1 2 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Apr 11 08:53:15 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 09:06:10 -0700 2009 fleeing for her life is actually described as "earnestly" clim...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 11 16:12:32 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 16:19:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1982 Sun May 17 10:32:56 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 10:56:19 -0700 2009 The Return of the Native...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 10:00:18 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 11:43:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Sun Apr 26 16:03:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 16:06:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 28 14:35:25 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 16:16:31 -0700 2009 1 Tess of the D'Ubervilles in high school and hated it with a passion. This book had a lot of twists, so I was anxious to see what was going to happen. It kept me interested throughout the whole book. At times the language was hard to get through be...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jul 01 13:51:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 13:04:42 -0700 2009
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