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Description - The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

When Michael Henchard, a young laborer who gets drunk at a fair, impulsively auctions off his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor, he creates a dark secret that will come back to dog him years later, when he has risen to become a successful and respected merchant and mayor of the city of Casterbridge. Thomas Hardy's almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all come together in an utterly fluent way. A classically shaped tragedy, The Mayor of Casterbridge is an emblematic product of Hardy's maturity- vigorous, forceful, and unclouded by illusions.

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 horror of what he has done dawns on him the next day, he determines to set his life on a different path, and through years of hard work and ambition rises to become the rich and respectable mayor of his town. Secret guilt continues to haunt this proud and brooding man, however, and when his wife and grown daughter return to Casterbridge, Henchard is set on the path to a dramatic confrontation with his own deeply flawed nature. Hardy's keen insight into the course of wayward lives and his instinctive feel for the beauty of the rural landscape come together in this unforgettable portrait of a tragic hero.

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