{"product_id":"mayor-of-casterbridge-1","title":"The Mayor of Casterbridge","description":"Part 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 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 lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled '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.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Mayor of Casterbridge","offer_id":46326548365509,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-241-34777-5.jpg?v=1780899541","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/mayor-of-casterbridge-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}