The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

Large Print

At a country fair, a drunken young hay-trusser sells his wife and baby daughter to a sailor for five guineas. Eighteen years later he is sober, prosperous and Mayor of Casterbridge, and his wife comes looking for him. Hardy’s great story of one man’s character and fate.

$8.99

On sale 17 November

First published

1886

Edition

Large print, the complete text

Type size

18 point, with generous line spacing

Page size

8.27 × 11.69 in (A4, 210 × 297 mm)

Format

Paperback, black and white on cream paper