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    The Mayor of Casterbridge
    The Mayor of Casterbridge
    The Mayor of Casterbridge
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    The Mayor of Casterbridge

    Written by Thomas Hardy

    Narrated by Peter Joyce

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    In a fit of drunken bitterness a young hay trusser, Michael Henchard, sells his wife Susan to Mr Newson, a sailor, at a country fair. The transaction also includes their daughter Elizabeth Jane. When sober the next day, he regrets his action but looks for them in vain and is eventually told they may have emigrated. Eighteen years later Henchard is the Mayor of Casterbridge and the people of the town believe him to be a widower. In recent times he has had an affair with a young woman in Jersey, Lucetta, while travelling there on business. She inherits a fortune and comes to Casterbridge to persuade Henchard to make ‘an honest woman’ of her. However, Susan, having lost her husband at sea, returns with the now grown Elizabeth Jane. The Mayor, wishing to atone for his crime of years before, remarries her. To complicate matters further a young ambitious Scot, Donald Farfrae, has settled in the town at Henchards instigation. Despite their rapidly worsening business relationship Donald initially casts a glad eye at Elizabeth Jane but then falls in love with Lucetta. What follows will destroy Henchard and cause all the main protagonists an immeasurable amount of emotional pain as betrayal, death and fate play their part in a tale full of suspense.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAssembled Stories
    Release dateOct 1, 2015
    ISBN9781860153853
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    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is best known for his novels, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895), which was denounced as morally objectionable. Hardy, disgusted with this reaction, declared he would never write fiction again and devoted the rest of his literary career to poetry.

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      I saw parts of the movie years ago and the ending. I remember being so utterly gripped with a mixture of devastation and sadness by the little I saw. I don’t know why it took me so long to read the book. It did not disappoint. There within is Mr. Henchard; the most complicated character I’ve ever come across. One who is able to glance fully at himself and repent yet fall on the knife of his own making over and over. Remove the ego and the human hedge and turn to the almighty, you want to scream at him. I did scream at him. But the story is a reminder that we are all so flawed but capable of looking up and letting God.