The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

384 pages first pub 1886 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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The Mayor of Casterbridge, one of Thomas Hardy's most powerful novels, opens with a scene of shocking heartlessness. In a fit of drunken rage, Michael Henchard, an out-of-work laborer, sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor. When the...

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