The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy's novel of character and fate follows Michael Henchard, who drunkenly sells his wife and daughter at a country fair and spends the next twenty years building himself into a prosperous… Read more

Thomas Hardy's novel of character and fate follows Michael Henchard, who drunkenly sells his wife and daughter at a country fair and spends the next twenty years building himself into a prosperous mayor — only to see everything unravel when his past returns. Set in Hardy's fictional Wessex, it is a powerful study of pride, self-destruction, and the irreversibility of moral choices. Show less