The mayor of Casterbridge : The Life and death of a man of character /
by Thomas Hardy.
- London : Penguin English Library, 2012.
- 375 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter. Years later, when he is the Mayor of Casterbridge, his past is brought back to haunt him, and he reverts to drinking.
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