The Mayor of Casterbridge: (Thomas Hardy Classics Collection) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781502312143)

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. His measured, springless walk was the walk of the skilled countryman as distinct from the desultory shamble of the general labourer; while in the turn and plant of each foot there was, further, a dogged and cynical indifference personal to himself, showing its presence even in the regularly interchanging fustian folds, now in the left leg, now in the right, as he paced along.

Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN-10: 150231214X
ISBN-13: 9781502312143
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2014
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.39d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.5
Point Value: 22
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10040 / Mayor of Casterbridge