The Mayor of Casterbridge A Story of a Man of Character - Thomas Hardy
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‘I’ve not always been what I am now’
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled ‘A Story of a Man of Character’, Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of ...
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled ‘A Story of a Man of Character’, Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of ...
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Pocket book, 8vo. [Auteur: Hardy, Thomas] [Pagina's: 384] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : MacMillan Publishing Company] [Jaar: 1976] [Titel: The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: A Story of a Man of Character]