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The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Martin Shaw
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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper.

Subtitled "A Story of a Man of Character", Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

©2010 De Agostini UK (P)2011 Talking Classics Classics
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I love this story, and have always appreciated this particular abridged version from Talking Classics. Wonderful narration. Highly recommended.

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