{"product_id":"9780241347775","title":"The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Clothbound Classics)","description":"\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49038188052707,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780241347775-1.jpg?v=1788329609","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9780241347775","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}