# The Mayor of Casterbridge

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- Book: [The Mayor of Casterbridge](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-hardy/the-mayor-of-casterbridge) ([The Mayor of Casterbridge.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-hardy/the-mayor-of-casterbridge.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-hardy)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-457-6
- Published: 2012-07-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

With an essay by Robert Langbaum. 'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.