ISBN: 9780451501219

New York. 1962. June 1962. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Afterword By Walter Allen. 336 pages. paperback. CD110. Cover: M… Plus…

New York. 1962. June 1962. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Afterword By Walter Allen. 336 pages. paperback. CD110. Cover: Max?. keywords: Signet Classic Literature England 19th Century Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The blind energies and defiant acts that bring an ambitious man to power can also destroy him. This is the theme that Thomas Hardy explores through his portrait of his greatest and most tragic hero - Michael Henchard, the self - driven grain merchant of Casterbridge. From his drunken sale of his wife and baby at a country fair to his subjugation of a farming village, Henchard's life is an epic attempt to bring the world to heel as he hides, even from himself, all vestiges of emotional vulnerability. 'Michael Henchard dominates the novel, is the novel, to an extent unparalleled by any character in Hardy's other fiction,' writes Walter Allen. 'He is a figure of commanding stature. He seems to contain all nature within himself, as a great bull might be said to do. This almost animal impercipience separates him from Shakespeare's tragic heroes, though in one respect he has affinities with Macbeth. External nature seems to join in the fight against him, but it is nature interpreted by superstition. The superstition is made credible by its poetic quality; and the poetry enhances our apprehension of Henchard's tragic fate.' And T. S. Eliot wrote, 'The work of Thomas Hardy represents. a powerful personality uncurbed by any institutional attachment or by submission to any objective beliefs . at times his style touches sublimity. inventory #30825, 0, The New American Library, 1963. Paperback. Acceptable/N/A. Fifteenth printing of this Signet Classics edition. Ex-school library copy with associated stamps to title page, inside of front cover and bottom edge of text block. Name written on inside of front cover and some writing in marker on fore edge of pages. Creases, chipping and general wear around the edges of cover with puncture to back cover. Spine lean with creases to covers on either side of spine., The New American Library, 1963, 2.5, New York. 1963. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451501217. Introduction By C.M. Woodhouse. 128 pages. paperback. CP121. keywords: Signet Classic Literature England Paperback 20th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This remarkable book has been described in many ways - as a masterpiece. a fairy story. a brilliant satire. a frightening view of the future. A devastating attack on the pig - headed, gluttonous and avaricious rulers in an imaginary totalitarian state, it illuminates the range of human experience from love to hate, from comedy to tragedy. 'A wise, compassionate and illuminating fable for our time. The steadiness and lucidity of Orwell's wit are reminiscent of Anatole France and even of Swift.' - NEW YORK TIMES. inventory #30644 ISBN: 0451501217., 0<