The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character by Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character

Thomas Hardy

490 pages first pub 1886 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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Michael Henchard is traveling with his wife, Susan, looking for employment as a hay-trusser. When they stop to eat, Henchard gets drunk, and in an auction that begins as a joke but turns serious, he sells his wife and their baby daughter, -Elizabe...

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