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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the backdrop of a close-knit Dorset town.
| ISBN | 1904633110 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781904633112
(What's this?) | | Pages | 320 | | Publisher | CRW Publishing Limited | | Weight (grammes) | 236 | | Imprint | Collector's Library | | Published in | Cirencester | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Collector's Library | | Publication date | 01 Sep 2003 | | Height (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | PT5001-5980, PT5001-5980 | | Width (mm) | 100 | | DEWEY | 823.8 | | Academic level | General |
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A gripping story that tugs at many of the emotional strings through providing so much essential and unessential character detail of the ordinary human character. A wonderful descriptive style, which has the reader living the Wessex atmosphere. The accidental purchase of this book at Blackwell two years ago, and the the great reading pleasure it provided, stimulated further interest in other Hardy titles - Jude the Obscure and Tess of the Durbervilles so far!. For this I am truly grateful to Blackwell. - roger budden Write a review
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