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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a masterwork of emotional complexity, heartbreak, and redemption by celebrated English author Thomas Hardy.
Drunk and outraged, Michael Henchard auctions off his own wife and daughter for five guineas. The following morning, he searches for his family to no avail and, with the clarity of sobriety, swears off liquor for the next 21 years. In that time, he becomes a successful grain merchant and the titular Mayor of Casterbridge, all the while keeping the shameful truth of his family’s disappearance under strict secrecy. Through Henchard, Thomas Hardy paints with compassion a picture of a man whose virtues run as deep as his faults. Ultimately, the past refuses to stay buried, and with the return of his wife and child, Henchard must manage his public image as the mayor of a quiet and close knit Dorsetshire town with the weight of familial responsibility, honor, and truth.
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I. Disadvantageous Shabbiness
II. A Little Shining Object
III. The Highroad
IV. Ordinary Relations
V. Wi’ the Mayor in the Chair
VI. A Stranger
VII. This Homely Place
VIII. Thus They Parted
IX. The Feel of Imminent Autumn
X. In Return for his Unkindness
XI. The Ring at Casterbridge
XII. Henchard’s Garden
XIII. Altogether a Pleasant Spot
XIV. A Martinmas Summer
XV. Miss Newson’s Budding Beauty
XVI. He Was Courteous—too Courteous
XVII. Amid Such a Mixed Throng
XVIII. A Certain Risk of Intimacy
XIX. Bent on Resisting Pain
XX. Enigmas
XXI. A Maxim Glibly Repeated
XXII. My Dear Mr. Henchard
XXIII. A Silver-Topped Switch
XXIV. Her Malignant Star
XXV. The Next Phase of Supersession
XXVI. A Fine Spring Morning
XXVII. The Eve of Harvest
XXVIII. Nothing of Her Was to Be Seen
XXIX. Concatenations of Phenomena
XXX. Surprise at the Event
XXXI. Henchard’s Mad Freak
XXXII. The End of High Street
XXXIII. A Convivial Custom
XXXIV. At Such an Unseemly Time
XXXV. Like Spirits from the Grave
XXXVI. Any Prospect of an Opening
XXXVII. A Royal Personage
XXXVIII. The Shake of the Royal Hand
XXXIX. A Well-Intentioned but Clumsy
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XL. Lost in Grave Reflection
XLI. Another Knock at the Door
XLII. In Somebody’s Hand
XLIII. On the Casterbridge Stage
XLIV. His Solitary Way Eastward
XLV. The Novelty of Her Situation