Hardy Thomas - The Mayor Of Casterbridge - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Mayor Of Casterbridge
Author(s): Hardy Thomas
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Barcode: 9781853260988
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 4/5/1994
Series: Wordsworth Classics
(Editor: Carabine, Dr Keith (University of Kent at Canterbury))
Category: Classic Fiction