{"product_id":"mayor-of-casterbridge","title":"Mayor of Casterbridge","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMayor of Casterbridge\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eThomas Hardy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780553210248\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBantam Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1981\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReissue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFrom its spectacular opening-the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair-to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge \u003c\/i\u003eclaims a unique place among Thomas Hardy's finest and most powerful novels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power-only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, \"Hardy's Lord Jim...his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | Mass market paperback | 9780553210248 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1776598 (temp: 7)","offer_id":49728618004632,"sku":"1776598","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81WDO3CeLnL.jpg?v=1787375657","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/mayor-of-casterbridge","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}