One of Hardy's most powerful novels, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair.
Under the influence of rum, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a sailor. Years later, the widowed wife returns to find her husband the Mayor of Casterbridge. When a man sells his wife, he should not expect to get away with it.
Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter. Years later, when he is the Mayor of Casterbridge, his past is brought back to haunt him, and he reverts to drinking.
The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin.
This is Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply fl awed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
... Caster- bridge - days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south - westerly tempests - when , if the sun shone , the air was like velvet . She seized on these days for her periodical visits to ... THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE . 181.
Set in a fictional town of Casterbridge, 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' is a 1886 novel by one of the most read and crittically acclaimed novelists of nineteenth century Thomas Hardy. It is one of his Wessex novels, set in rural England.
One of Hardy's most powerful novels, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair.
