The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

386 pages first pub 1886 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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Under the powerful influence of rum furmity, Michael Henchard, a hay-trusser by trade, sells his wife Susan and their child Elizabeth-Jane to Newson, a sailor, for five guineas.Years later, Susan, now a widow, arrives in Casterbridge with Elizabet...

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