The Mayor of Casterbridge

Oct 23, 2024 6:35 AM

Author:Thomas Hardy,Keith Wilson

'Hardy's is a world that can never disappear' Margaret Drabble

Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. Its events are set in motion when, in a fit of drunken anger, 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 pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success lurks the shameful secret of his past.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wilson

Reviews

Some of the greatest words ever written on thwarted love since Romeo and Juliet

—— The Times

A powerful novel which brings two troubled and brilliant people back to life

—— Sunday Telegraph

A razor-sharp blade of light... This is fiction's raising of Lazarus, miraculous, touched with wonder, grace and utter, steadfast belief in the life being resurrected... A work of intense, unflinching passion and conviction, written with Galloway's heart's blood

—— The Times

Janice Galloway's exciting, vibrant third novel proves a virtuoso piece of storytelling...this obvious Booker contender is as compelling as the tormented players and music that inspired it

—— Eileen Battersby , Irish Times

You read Clara and you catch the music of another mind, and wherever it comes from Janice Galloway plays the notes to what sounds very much like perfection. This is a virtuoso performance

—— Scotsman

A novel dizzy with lyrical passages and pulsating with the musical passion of Clara's complicated, tragic love for her husband Robert Schumann

—— Scotland on Sunday

Her limpid prose style is so seductive and so beautiful a fine meditation on art, love and loss...

—— Meaghan Delahunt, The Scotsman

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