Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use. Text is clean. Brown balloon cloth flexibinding shows normal wear, ends of spine and corners gently bumped. One inch tear at front and back hinge. Kent Endpapers. See images for the condition of this book.
Blurb: Intro by Joyce Kilmer.
‘I’ve not always been what I am now’
In 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