The Mayor of Casterbridge Suspense and socio-economic grievances

and socio-economic grievances

then we have a friend or loved one who does

and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002

tragically frail Beth

The Mayor of Casterbridge Suspense and socio-economic grievancesIn a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Years later, he becomes a respected and prosperous figure in the town of Casterbridge, yet he is haunted by the shameful secret of his past and a self destructive personality. Subtitled A Story of a Man of Character, Hardys powerful study of the heroic but flawed Henchard is a dramatic tale set against the vivid backdrop of a close knit