![]() ![]() (Summary be DebraLynn)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox. He does this quite successfully until, nearly 20 years later, his past comes back to haunt him. Eventually he is forced to give up the search and move on with his life. When he awakens, sober, the next day he regrets his rash act and vows to give up drink and find his family and bring them home. The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England.(Summary from Wikipedia)Ī poor, disgruntled, drunken young man sells his wife and child to the highest bidder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hardys powerful and sympathetic study of. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". LibriVox recording of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, read by Debra Lynn. Author: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928: Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Psychological fiction Subject: Fathers and daughters - Fiction Subject: Men - England - Fiction Subject: Wessex (England) - Fiction Subject: Runaway husbands - Fiction Subject. ![]()
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