The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy

From its spectacular opening - the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a country fair - to the breathtaking series 0f discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of casterbridqe claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels.


Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early- nineteenth-century England, the story builds into an awesome Sophoclean drama of gu