Overview
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 the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
- | Author: Thomas Hardy, Narthex
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Aug 26, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 290 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1726250105
- | ISBN-13: 9781726250108
