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В молодости Майкл Хенчард совершил ужасную ошибку — продал свою жену и дочь. Тогда он зарекся, что не будет пить 21 год и искупит свой грех. Хенчард сдержал слово. Из человека, потерявшего все, он превратился в успешного оптового торговца зерном и стал мэром Кестербриджа. Спустя 18 лет Хенчард вновь встречает жену Сьюзен и дочь. Семья воссоединяется после долгой разлуки. Но мужчина, которому Хенчард когда-то продал жену, вновь появляется в их жизни. Теперь он пришел, чтобы забрать то, что принадлежит ему…

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.

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy. "Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?" 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. "The Penguin English Library" - 100 editions of the best…

Classic / British English Michael Henchard is a wealthy and respected man, but he has a terrible secret. Twenty years ago, when he was unemployed and penniless, he sold his wife to a sailor. Now she is looking for him again. Why? And what will happen when she finds him?

"A tale of true tragedy -- a man of potential brought down by his own fatal flaw -- wonderfully vivid and strong." --Joanna Trollope The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him to swear never to tough alcohol again for twenty-one years. He has since risen from his humble origins to become a respected pillar of the community in Casterbridge, but his secrets cannot stay hidden forever and he has many hard lessons left to learn.

In Thomas Hardy’s classic novel, an ambitious man discovers that the blind energies and defiant acts that brought him to power can also destroy him.

Classic / British English Michael Henchard is a wealthy and respected man, but he has a terrible secret. Twenty years ago, when he was unemployed and penniless, he sold his wife to a sailor. Now she is looking for him again. Why? And what will happen when she finds him?

Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love. This edition is the only critically established text of the novel,…

Drunk and bitter at the world, the young Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor at Weydon Priors fair. The next morning he vows to give up drink and mend his terrible ways. Twenty years later he is mayor of Casterbridge, a rich and important figure who little suspects the past is about to rear up and attack him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a masterpiece of Victorian literature, bringing the classical forms of tragedy into the modern world with striking force, showing a proud and noble man overwhelmed by his past and the forces of fate.

One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as the mayor—finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative 1912 Wessex edition, as well as Hardy’s map of Wessex.

Thomas Hardy's exploration of his most tragic hero, Michael Henchard, is the classic tale of over-ambition. From his drunken sale of his wife and baby at a country fair, to his subjugation of a farming willage, Henchard's life is an epic attempt to bring the world to heel as he hides even from himself all vestiges of emotional vulnerability. A classic character study with overtones of Shakespeare's MacBeth.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardy's native home and the town upon which Casterbridge is based. Included are six of Hardy's nonfiction writings, notably excerpts from his essay "The Dorsetshire Laboure" (1883), in which he frankly comments on the social changes he has witnessed in the county. Hardy's Wessex is further examined in an essay by Michael Millgate, by maps of Casterbridge and Wessex, and by a key to local place names. Christine Winfield discusses the novel's manuscript and its complicated history. "Criticism" collects seventeen…

Under the powerful influence of rum furmity, Michael Henchard, a hay-trusser by trade, sells his wife Susan and their child Elizabeth-Jane to Newson, a sailor, for five guineas. Years later, Susan, now a widow, arrives in Casterbridge with Elizabeth-Jane, to seek her legal husband. To their surprise, Henchard is now the Mayor of Casterbridge and, following the sale of his wife, took a twenty-one-year vow not to drink, out of shame. Henchard remarries Susan and, as Elizabeth-Jane believes herself to be Newson's daughter, he adopts her as his own. But he cannot evade his destiny by such measures, for his past refuses to be buried. Fate…

The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him to swear never to touch alcohol again for twenty-one years. He has since risen from his humble origins to become a respected pillar of the community in Casterbridge, but his secrets cannot stay hidden forever. Thomas Hardy’s almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all came together in an utterly fluent way in The Mayor of Casterbridge. A…

From 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, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted 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,…

В романе рассказывается о человеке с характером и необычной судьбой. История жизни Майкла Хенчарда, сначала бездомного рабочего, вязальщика сена, затем мэра города Кэстербриджа и местного богача и снова батрака, невольно возбуждает интерес напряженностью событий.

Действие романа Томаса Гарди разворачивается в 20-40-х годах XIX века, в одном из юго-западных городов Англии. Герой романа Томаса Гарди "Мэр Кестербриджа" - Майкл Хенчард - сельскохозяйственный рабочий, батрак, которого нужда гонит в город на заработки. Благодаря исключительным качествам своего самобытного характера, этот выходец из народа становится мэром города, но превращается на новом поприще в своевластного эгоиста и себялюбца.

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.

Действие романа развертывается в 20-40-х годах XIX века, в одном из юго-западных городов Англии, выдуманном городе Кестербридже (прототипом которого стал город Дорчестер в Дорсете). Герой романа Майкл Хенчард - сельскохозяйственный рабочий, батрак, которого нужда гонит в город на заработки. Благодаря исключительным качествам своего самобытного характера, этот выходец из народа становится мэром города, но превращается на новом поприще в своевластного эгоиста и себялюбца.

Действие романа развертывается в 20-40-х годах XIX века, в одном из юго-западных городов Англии. Герой романа Майкл Хенчард - сельскохозяйственный рабочий, батрак, которого нужда гонит в город на заработки. Благодаря исключительным качествам своего самобытного характера, этот выходец из народа становится мэром города, но превращается на новом поприще в своевластного эгоиста и себялюбца.

Действие романа Томаса Гарди разворачивается в 20-40-х годах XIX века, в одном из юго-западных городов Англии. Герой романа Майкл Хенчард - сельскохозяйственный рабочий, батрак, которого нужда гонит в город на заработки. Благодаря исключительным качествам своего самобытного характера, этот выходец из народа становится мэром города, но превращается на новом поприще в своевластного эгоиста и себялюбца.

«Мэр Кестербриджа» — один из лучших романов выдающегося писателя английского реализма Томаса Гарди (1840- 1928) Действие романа развертывается в 20-40-х годах 19 века, в одном из юго-западных городов Англии. В основу повествования взяты действительные события и факты. Герой романа Майкл Хенчард — сельскохозяйственный рабочий, батрак, которого нужда гонит в город на заработки, где он, человек сильных страстей, испытывает развращающее влияние. Он превращается в своевластного эгоиста и честолюбца, который не только уродует жизнь окружающих, но ломает и калечит свою собственную жизнь.

Set in the fictional town of Casterbridge, “The Mayor of Casterbridge” is Thomas Hardy’s tragic story of Michael Henchard, who over indulges in alcohol at a country fair and decides to auction off his wife and daughter to a sailor. When he recovers his sobriety, Mr. Henchard realizes his mistake, but it is too late to get his family back. Devastated by his impetuous actions he decides not to touch alcohol again for the next twenty-one years. The novel advances eighteen years to find the tee-totaling Henchard as the Mayor of Casterbridge and a successful grain merchant. When his wife and daughter return to town a precipitous decline in…

From its astonishing opening scene, in which the drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter at a country fair, to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story builds 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 achieve a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard…