The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (Modern Library)
US$10.22
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good. 1950. Random House (Modern Library).
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.