| The Mayor Of Casterbridge: The Life And Death Of A Man Of Character Contributor(s): Hardy, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1511989084 ISBN-13: 9781511989084 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $18.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1886 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1090 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 8" W x 10" (1.01 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot. They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just now. The man was of fine figure, swarthy, and stern in aspect; and he showed in profile a facial angle so slightly inclined as to be almost perpendicular. He wore a short jacket of brown corduroy, newer than the remainder of his suit, which was a fustian waistcoat with white horn buttons, breeches of the same, tanned leggings, and a straw hat overlaid with black glazed canvas. At his back he carried by a looped strap a rush basket, from which protruded at one end the crutch of a hay-knife, a wimble for hay-bonds being also visible in the aperture. |