num_pages: 320
description: In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the backdrop of a close-knit Dorset town.
language: English
title: The Mayor Of Casterbridge
titlecomplete: The Mayor Of Casterbridge
characters: Lucetta Templeman, Donald Farfrae, Richard Newson, Michael Henchard, Elizabeth-Jane Newson, Susan Henchard
genres: Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 61200
places: United Kingdom, Dorset, England, Wessex, England
publisher: Crw Publishing