{"product_id":"mayor-of-casterbridge-h-b-w3","title":"Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Clothbound Classics) [2018] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardy, Thomas","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44240038297890,"sku":"9780241347775","price":18.75,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hardy-thomas-thomas-hardy-the-mayor-of-casterbridge-the-life-and-death-of-a-man-of-character-penguin-clothbound-classics-2018-hardback-9780241347775-58621442326867.jpg?v=1726487954","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/mayor-of-casterbridge-h-b-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}