The Mayor of Casterbridge The Tragedy of Fate, Rivalry, Ambition, and Moral Consequence
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196
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1/15,2/22,9 cm
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273 g
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Englisch
ISBN
978-80-285-2338-1
Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is a tragic novel of character, chance, and social change, centered on Michael Henchard, whose impulsive act of drunkenly selling his wife and child determines the course of his life. Set in the semi-fictional Wessex town of Casterbridge, the novel combines psychological realism with the inexorable movement of classical tragedy. Hardy's prose is grave yet richly textured, attentive to rural custom, economic transition, and the moral pressures of Victorian provincial society. Hardy, one of the major English novelists of the late nineteenth century, drew deeply on his Dorset upbringing and intimate knowledge of rural communities. His fiction repeatedly explores the tension between individual will and indifferent circumstance, and The Mayor of Casterbridge exemplifies this preoccupation with exceptional force. Written during Hardy's mature period, the novel reflects his skepticism toward moral simplification and his fascination with the ways public reputation, memory, and fate shape human lives. This is a book for readers who value serious, penetrating fiction: a powerful study of pride, remorse, and failed renewal. The Mayor of Casterbridge rewards attention not only as a compelling story, but as one of Hardy's most profound meditations on responsibility and loss.
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