Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith,these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241347775Number of pages: 448Weight: 574 gDimensions: 205 x 138 x 36 mm
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