The Mayor of Casterbridge (English Library)

by Thomas Hardy (Author), Martin Seymour-Smith (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1979

  $3.37

• Used

  Paperback
  1987

  $3.22

  Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth in the historical town of Dorchester, and it is to these familiar surroundings that he turns for the setting of this novel. This edition is the first critically established text of The Mayor of Casterbridge, based on a detailed study of the manuscript and of Hardy's revised printed versions.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.22

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $6.93

  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.