{"product_id":"thomas-hardys-the-mayor-of-casterbridge-modern-library-1917","title":"Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge - Modern Library, 1917","description":"\u003cbr\u003eTitle:  The Mayor of Casterbridge\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Thomas Hardy\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Modern Library\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 1917\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Softcover in English\u003cbr\u003eCondition: This book is in good condition for it's age with minor wear to spine ends and board corners, tanned pages.\u003c!-- split --\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eReader's note\u003c\/h2\u003eMichael Henchard, Mayor of Casterbridge is perhaps the greatest of all Thomas Hardy's character-creations. As a young man with nothing to lose he sells his wife and child in a fairground auction, and later in life, when he has risen to be mayor and a well-to-do corn-merchant, his past rises up to destroy him. Essentially this is the story of a personal tragedy - of the rise and fall of a single man, undone by his faults of character and the changing conditions of rural commerce. His struggles against his society and his own guilty past have a truly heroic grandeur. A must have classic to add to any collection.","brand":"Country House Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56465104667003,"sku":"10924206","price":14.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2458\/8207\/files\/orig_531466_jpg.jpg?v=1790081886","url":"https:\/\/countryhouselibrary.co.uk\/products\/thomas-hardys-the-mayor-of-casterbridge-modern-library-1917","provider":"Country House Library ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}