One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of
Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene:
In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and
daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they
return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later,
Henchard—having gained power and success as the mayor—finds
he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him.
The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological
novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause
his ruin.
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