The mayor of Casterbridge

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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. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

385 s.

Vydáno

London : Penguin, 1994

Edice

Penguin popular classics

Témata

společenské romány

historické romány

Anglie

19. století

anglicky psané romány

ISBN

0-14-062029-X