Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After arguing with his wife Susan at a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex, Michael Henchard, drunk on rum auctions her off, along with their baby daughter, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober and remorseful the next day, he is too late to locate his family and vows not to touch liquor again for 21 years. Some 18 years later, after Newson is lost at sea, Susan seeks out Henchard again, taking her daughter with her. She discovers that Henchard has become a very successful hay and grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. When the couple is reunited, Henchard proposes remarrying Susan after a sham courtship. However, he is engaged with a woman named Lucetta Templeman, who had nursed him when he was ill and his situation begins to complicate.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge Historical Novel written by Thomas Hardy and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After arguing with his wife Susan at a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex, Michael Henchard, drunk on rum auctions her off, along with their baby daughter, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober and remorseful the next day, he is too late to locate his family and vows not to touch liquor again for 21 years. Some 18 years later, after Newson is lost at sea, Susan seeks out Henchard again, taking her daughter with her. She discovers that Henchard has become a very successful hay and grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. When the couple is reunited, Henchard proposes remarrying Susan after a sham courtship. However, he is engaged with a woman named Lucetta Templeman, who had nursed him when he was ill and his situation begins to complicate.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 1886 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Hardy's most powerful novels, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard--having gained power and success as the mayor--finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative 1912 Wessex edition, as well as Hardy's map of Wessex.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge a Story of a Man of Character written by Thomas Hardy and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by THOMAS HARDY and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a fictional town of Casterbridge, 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' is a 1886 novel by one of the most read and crittically acclaimed novelists of nineteenth century Thomas Hardy. It is one of his Wessex novels, set in rural England.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drunk and bitter at the world, the young Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor at Weydon Priors fair. Awaking the next morning, he makes a vow to give up drink and mend his ways. Twenty years later, he is the Mayor of Casterbridge: a rich and important figure who little suspects his past is about to find him with a cruel and devastating irony.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1997-03-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1886 novel may be Hardy’s most intense and gripping narrative. We first see the central character, Michael Henchard, as a drunken and unemployed hay-trusser who sells his wife Susan and his daughter Elizabeth-Jane at a fair. When he is eventually reunited with the two, he has become the contented and prosperous mayor of a thriving market town. But the downward spiral begins. Henchard’s fall is hastened by a series of coincidences and quarrels, and by his own jealousy and pride. Though the perspective on events that Hardy gives us is often that of other characters (Elizabeth-Jane in particular), Henchard remains the central focus; in the end he is a tragic figure, bankrupt, emotionally broken and an outcast from society. Prepared by one of the world’s leading Hardy scholars, this edition includes a critical introduction and a range of background materials from the period. Historical documents (concerning such topics as the corn laws and the practice of wife-selling) and contemporary reviews help set this remarkable novel in the context out of which it emerged.
Download or read book Far from the Madding Crowd written by Thomas Hardy and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attractive book at a modest price ensures that everyone can share in this supreme literary inheritance. Two of Hardy's best works are included in this volume.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge a Story of a Man of Character written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Green Hills of Magic written by Ruth Ann Musick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries. With them they brought many folktales and legends of then homelands. Ruth Ann Musick has collected some of the best and most representative of these stories -- never before published in book form -- in The Green Hills of Magic. In many instances, these tales were first related in family circles in the native languages of the tellers, later to be translated by their younger English-speaking descendants. Entertaining in themselves, the stories are also excellent examples of the diverse folk beliefs and cultural patterns of the national and ethnic immigrant groups. The tales are attractively illustrated with more than twenty black-and-white drawings.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is one of his best-known novels. It begins with a wife-selling, an event not as uncommon in British rural history as one might like to suppose. Atlantic Monthly called it a strong, vivid story and thought Hardy more virile and humourous than the mob of lesser novelists who write with alarming ease....
Download or read book THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE written by THOMAS HARDY and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rural England. Hardy began writing the book in 1884 and wrote the last page on 17 April 1885. Within the book, he writes that the events took place "before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span". Literary critic Dale Kramer sees it as being set somewhat later--in the late 1840s, corresponding to Hardy's youth in Dorchester.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from the first chapter: "One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot. They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just now. The man was of fine figure, swarthy, and stern in aspect; and he showed in profile a facial angle so slightly inclined as to be almost perpendicular. He wore a short jacket of brown corduroy, newer than the remainder of his suit, which was a fustian waistcoat with white horn buttons, breeches of the same, tanned leggings, and a straw hat overlaid with black glazed canvas. At his back he carried by a looped strap a rush basket, from which protruded at one end the crutch of a hay-knife, a wimble for hay-bonds being also visible in the aperture. His measured, springless walk was the walk of the skilled countryman as distinct from the desultory shamble of the general labourer; while in the turn and plant of each foot there was, further, a dogged and cynical indifference personal to himself, showing its presence even in the regularly interchanging fustian folds, now in the left leg, now in the right, as he paced along."
Download or read book The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge Illustrated written by Thomas Hardy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886.The novel is considered to be one of Hardy's masterpieces, although it has been criticised for incorporating too many incidents: a consequence of the author trying to include something in every weekly published instalment.
Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Hardy Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rural England.Hardy began writing the book in 1884 and wrote the last page on 17 April 1885. Within the book, he writes that the events took place "before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span". Literary critic Dale Kramer sees it as being set somewhat later-in the late 1840s, corresponding to Hardy's youth in Dorchester.
