# 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: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-4580-401-3
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2016-11-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Mayor of Casterbridge, one of Thomas Hardy’s most powerful novels, opens with a scene of shocking heartlessness. In a fit of drunken rage, Michael Henchard, an out-of-work laborer, sells his...