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1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 07 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Pamela Garelick. |
| Summary |
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 has said, "Hardy's Lord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Runaway husbands -- Fiction.
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Wessex (England) -- Fiction.
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Men -- England -- Fiction.
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Atonement -- Fiction.
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Mayors -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Garelick, Pamela. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982491420 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982491426 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10025231 |
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