The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Thomas Hardy

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Penguin Popular Classics

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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 window, arrives in Casterbridge with Elizabeth-Jane, to seek her legal husband. To their suprise, Henchard is now the Mayor of Casterbridge and, follwing the sale of his wife, took a twenty-one-year vow not to drink, out of shame. Henchard remarries Susan and, as Elizabeth-Jane believes herslf to be buried. Fate contrives for him to be punsished for the recklessness of his younger days.

In this powerful depiction of a man who overreaches himself, Hardy once again shows his acute psychological grasp and his deep-seated knowledge of mid-nineteenth-century Dorset.
(Arka Kapak)