Mayor of Casterbridge

By Thomas Hardy

Subjects: England, fiction, Domestic fiction, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Hardy, thomas, 1840-1928, Mayors in fiction, Literature, Mayors, Psychological fiction, English fiction, Fathers and daughters, Psycology, Large type books, Runaway husbands, Criticism and interpretation, Atonement, Separation (Psychology), Manners and customs, Atonement in fiction, Men in fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Wessex (england), fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Social life and customs, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England in fiction, Social conditions, Runaway husbands in fiction, Fiction, psychological, Men, Psychology, Fiction in English

Description: In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.