The Mayor of Casterbridge -

Thomas Hardy

Collector's Library

2003

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9781904633112

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.

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A cidade fictícia de Casterbridge oferece uma imagem de Dorchester no século XIX. O romance conta a ascensão e queda de Michael Henchard, que, começando do nada depois de abandonar sua esposa e filha, ganha prosperidade e respeito e se reencontra com sua família apenas para perder tudo por sua própria teimosia e natureza vingativa.