The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic)

Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)

At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n...