The Mayor of Casterbridge : : the Life and Death of a man of Character
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Call Number: Fiction / Hardy, Thomas
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A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past.
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Too long submitted by sara on August 25, 2013, 7:12pm The premise of the story was good, but it took too many pages to relate.
Okay... submitted by Fishing Rainbow on June 17, 2016, 7:01pm This book was okay but it couldn't really hold my attention for long spans of time.
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780141439785
0141439785
SUBJECTS
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Runaway husbands -- Fiction.
Atonement -- Fiction.
Mayors -- Fiction.
Wessex (England) -- Fiction.