The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics)

by Dale Kramer (Editor), Dale Kramer (Editor), Thomas Hardy (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.28

  This edition is the first critically established text based on a detailed study of the manuscript, and of Hardy's revised printed versions. It includes an informative new introduction by Dale Kramer, and helpful annotations.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.28

  The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides and puts him on the trail ofa cop-killer whose victims are selected all to carefully. Not only that, but they all leave suicide notes drawn from the poems of writer Edgar Allan Poe in their wake. More frightening still the killer appears to know that Jack is getting nearer and nearer. An investigation that looks like being the story of alifetime, might be Jack's ticket to a lonely end.

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  Hardcover
  1995

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  Paperback
  1994

  $6.80

  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.