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A cruel joke at a country fair goes too far when a drunken laborer auctions off his wife and child to the highest bidder. So begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy's gripping tale of a man's rise and fall amid the natural beauty and human brutality of a rural English community.
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Dover Publications,
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| Publisher Address: | Mineola, N.Y. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dover thrift editions
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| Summary: |
A cruel joke at a country fair goes too far when a drunken laborer auctions off his wife and child to the highest bidder. So begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy's gripping tale of a man's rise and fall amid the natural beauty and human brutality of a rural English community. |
| Item Description: | "An unabridged republication of the 1912 Wessex edition (first published by The Macmillan Co., New York) of the work originally published in 1886 by Smith & Elder, London. A new introduction has been specially prepared for this reprint"--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 243 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780486437491 0486437493 |
| Index Number: | PR4750 |
| CLC: | I561.44 |
| Call Number: | I561.44/H272-43 |