{"product_id":"the-mayor-of-casterbridge-by-thomas-hardy-9780241347775","title":"The Mayor of Casterbridge","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning clothbound edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge\u003c\/em\u003e, a haunting study of guilt and lost love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a fit of drunken anger, Michael 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 and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurks the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSubtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46496147636460,"sku":"9780241347775","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25277083482273.jpg?v=1748492335","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-mayor-of-casterbridge-by-thomas-hardy-9780241347775","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}