Mayor of Casterbridge (Wordsworth Classics)

Product Description

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the ‘partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single ‘man of character'. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the author's most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description.

Review

?Hardy?s world is a world that can never disappear.? ?
Margaret Drabble –Margaret Drabble

From the Back Cover

When a man sells his wife, he should not expect to get away with it. Michael Henchard forswears drink for twenty-one years and becomes the successful mayor of a thriving industrial town, but his mistake returns to hunt him.

About the Author

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of the few writers to succeed as both a major novelist and a poet. He is the author of
The Return of the Native,
The Mayor of Casterbridge,
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and
Jude the Obscure. Several of his novels have been made into films, notably
Far from the Madding Crowd (Schlesinger, 1967) and
Tess (Polanski, 1979).