Hardy, Thomas.

The Life and Death of The Mayor of Casterbridge. The story of a Man of Character.

Seventh printing. London, The Folio Society, 1993. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 334 pages. Original Hardcover. Cloth-bound volume with slip case. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Beautifully presented volume with embossed cover. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Description:– Set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset, England). The book is one of Hardy’s Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rural England. At a country fair near Casterbridge, Wessex, a young hay-trusser named Michael Henchard gets drunk on rum-laced furmity and quarrels with his wife, Susan. He decides to auction off his wife and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, to a sailor, Mr. Newson, for five guineas. Sober the next day, he is too late to recover his family. When he realises that his wife and daughter are gone, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far. Eighteen years later, Henchard is now a successful grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. Henchard has avoided explaining the circumstances of the “loss” of his wife, allowing people to assume he is a widower. [Source: wikipedia.org].

• Keywords: Illustrated Books
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 75253AB

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