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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
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One of the great novelists of British literature, Thomas Hardy caused quite a stir when this powerful novel was first published. Michael Henchard, down on his luck and drunk, sells his wife and child to a sailor for five guineas. As time goes by, Henchard becomes Mayor of Casterbridge—but he cannot escape the tragedy of his past.

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The consequences of selling your wife because you are drunk at a country fair. Almost an Edwardian Sliding Doors Novel. Delightful descriptions of Wessex as usual interspersed with problematic, traumatic relationships. Hardy’s women are particularly tragic; I had hoped with this written in Hardy’s mature years that women might fare better; alas no.

Easy to listen to; this a good presentation.

A cracking Hardy read.

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