The mayor of Casterbridge : a story of a man of character / Thomas Hardy ; introduction and notes by Michael Irwin.

By:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Wordsworth classicsPublication details: Ware : Wordsworth Classics, 1994 (2001 [printing])Description: xvii, 260 p. ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1853260983 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823.8 21
F

Summary: 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. -- Adlibris

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Printed book	IES Halmstad Classics	Fiction	F Har (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		097818532609881

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Reprinted with new introduction and notes.

Includes bibliographical references.

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. -- Adlibris