| Description |
viii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition |
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Norton critical edition.
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| Contents |
Foreword -- The Text of The Mayor of Casterbridge -- Preface -- The Mayor of Casterbridge -- A Note on the Text -- Backgrounds -- The Setting -- Map of the Wessex of Novels and Poems -- Key to Place Names in the Mayor of Casterbridge -- Map of Casterbridge and Durnover (circa 1848) -- Composition, Publication, Reception -- Christine Winfield: The Manuscript of Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge -- Richard Little Purdy: [Publication of the Novel] -- Carl J. Weber: [Reception of the Novel] -- From Hardy' Autobiography: [On The Mayor of Casterbridge] -- Criticism -- Contemporary Critical Reception -- Critical Essays -- Joseph Warrn Beach: Movie -- Virginia Woolf: [Hardy's Impression of Life] -- Albert J. Guerard: [Henchard, Hardy's Lord Jim] -- Douglas Brown: [The Harsher Aspects of Agricultural Life] -- Julian Moynahan: The Mayor of Casterbridge and the Old Testament's First Book of Samuel : A Study of Some Literary Relationships -- Norman Friedman: [Henchard's Mixed Moral Character] -- John Holloway: Hardy's Major Fiction -- John Patterson: The Mayor of Casterbridge as Tragedy -- Fredrick R. Karl: The Mayor of Casterbridge: A New Fiction Defined -- Irving Howe: The Struggles of Men -- Charles K. Hofling: Thomas Hardy and the Mayor of Casterbridge -- J. Hillis Miller: [Nightmare of Frustrated Desire] -- Ian Gregor: A Man and His History: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1866) -- Selected Bibliography |
| Summary |
Tells the story about a headstrong man who rises to become the richest corn merchant and chief citizen in his town. Despite his great wealth and power, however, his past comes back to haunt him, his fortunes turn for the worst, and he ends up at the mercy of his arch rival |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-436) |
| Subject |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Mayor of Casterbridge.
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Atonement -- Fiction.
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Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Fathers and daughters -- England -- Fiction.
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Mayors -- Fiction.
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Men -- England -- Fiction.
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Men -- England -- Psychology -- Fiction.
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Runaway husbands -- Fiction.
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Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Literature.
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114941
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Wessex (England) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113649
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Robinson, James K.
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| LC no. |
76057983 |
| ISBN |
0393044599 |
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0393091740 (paperback) |
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9780393044591 |
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9780393091748 (paperback) |
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