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The Mayor of Casterbridge

Author
Thomas Hardy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
11 hours 6 minutes
ISBN
9781802564020
Published
18 March 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • fate
  • guilt
  • redemption
  • power
  • prosperity
  • isolation
  • character exploration
  • adversity
  • time
  • consequence

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Description

Michael Henchard sells his wife and child at a fair, then rises to mayor of Casterbridge until that past returns and pulls him into guilt and isolation. Hardy's tragedy of impulse, power, and consequence. Spoken as when one drunken bargain becomes the ghost that follows every later success.

Author

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) gave English literature its most unforgettable tragic landscapes — the imagined county of Wessex, where heath, village, and market town hold the fate of ordinary lives. In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Far from the Madding Crowd, he wrote characters undone by chance, desire, and the hard edges of Victorian society.

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