Author(s): Hardy, Thomas,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 06/09/2018,
Pagination: 448 pages,
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics,
Imprint: Penguin Classics,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Dimensions: 173 x 126 x 38mm
Weight: 574g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241347775

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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.