Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge

Cover: 9781912714957 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | Buch | Englisch | 2021

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The Mayor of Casterbridge begins at a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober and remorseful the next day, he is too late to locate his family. He vows not to touch liquor again for 21 years.

Über den Autor

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. Two of his novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Geschenkbücher
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781912714957
ISBN-10:	1912714957
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hardy, Thomas
Hersteller:	Chiltern Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	184 x 127 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	Thomas Hardy
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.10.2021
Gewicht:	0,63 kg