{"product_id":"the-mayor-of-casterbridge","title":"The Mayor of Casterbridge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe sold his wife at a fair, and spent the rest of his life paying for it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder this book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=yffbjAtExGxQEBtwJA1kzYSV77WJVzI58SABR6ID6ou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePaperback from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=7dUHMfgKE4jEcaIDR1aN71SEmnon8LLX4oI3qebZgts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eHardcover from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character\u003c\/em\u003e, Thomas Hardy’s great tragedy of pride, guilt, and the long reach of one irrevocable act, in a new Northlume Library edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a country fair, a young hay-trusser named Michael Henchard, drunk, restless, and bitter, sells his wife and infant daughter to a passing sailor for five guineas. Waking to what he has done, he swears off drink for twenty years and sets out to remake himself. Eighteen years on he is the prosperous, respected Mayor of Casterbridge, until the wife he wronged walks quietly back into his life, and the buried past begins, piece by piece, to undo everything he has built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1886, \u003cem\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge\u003c\/em\u003e is among the most powerful of Hardy’s Wessex novels: a stark, compassionate study of a proud man broken by his own nature and the turnings of chance, set against the fields and market-town streets of a vanishing rural England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Northlume Library edition presents Hardy’s complete 1886 text, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus, behind an original mixed media illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThomas Hardy (1840–1928)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorthlume Classic Library\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 328 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"JVB Atelier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44686112227370,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/files\/the-mayor-of-casterbridge.jpg?v=1786494123","url":"https:\/\/northlume.org\/products\/the-mayor-of-casterbridge","provider":"Northlume ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}