| The Mayor of Casterbridge Contributor(s): Hardy, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553210246 ISBN-13: 9780553210248 Publisher: Bantam Classics
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 1981 Annotation: From the stunning opening wife-selling scene (at one time a not uncommon phenomenon in England) to the final playing out his tragedy, Michael Henchard proves to be violent, selfish, greedy and crude. At the same time he possesses magnanimity, humility and a comparison that always pleased Hardy. Click for more in this series: Bantam Classics |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00002972 |
| Age Level: 14-NA |
| Grade Level: 9-NA |
| Lexile Measure: 1090(Not Available) |
| Series: Bantam Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 4.27" W x 6.89" L (0.39 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 11/13/2015 pg. 65 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10040 Reading Level: 9.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 22.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
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