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11 de mar. de 2006 · The Mayor of Casterbridge Credits: John Hamm and David Widger Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Psychological fiction Subject: Fathers and daughters -- Fiction Subject: Men -- England -- Fiction Subject: Wessex (England) -- Fiction Subject: Runaway husbands -- Fiction Subject: Atonement ...
《卡斯特桥市长》是英国小说家、诗人托马斯·哈代创作的长篇小说，是“威塞克斯小说体系”中的一部，发表于1886年。作品讲述主人公亨查德原是个打草工，因醉酒将妻女出卖。事后追悔莫及，从此滴酒不沾，发奋致富，二十年后当上了卡斯特桥市长，后来妻女回到了他的身边，但灾难也接踵而至 ...
Heartbroken, Henchard leaves and shortly afterwards dies in an abandoned hut, attended only by the humblest and simplest of his former workmen. The novel closes when Farfrae and Elizabeth-Jane find the place where he has died and read his terrible will of complete renunciation. Previous. Next About The Mayor of Casterbridge.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Full Book Summary. Michael Henchard is traveling with his wife, Susan, looking for employment as a hay-trusser. When they stop to eat, Henchard gets drunk, and in an auction that begins as a joke but turns serious, he sells his wife and their baby daughter, -Elizabeth-Jane, to Newson, a sailor, for five guineas.
8 de fev. de 2021 · The letter to the young Jersey woman was carefully framed by him, and the interview ended, Henchard saying, as the Scotchman left, “I feel it a great relief, Farfrae, to tell some friend o’ this! You see now that the Mayor of Casterbridge is not so thriving in his mind as it seems he might be from the state of his pocket.” “I do.
The Mayor of Casterbridge. Drunk and bitter at the world, the young Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor at Weydon Priors fair. The next morning he vows to give up drink and mend his terrible ways. Twenty years later he is mayor of Casterbridge, a rich and important figure who little suspects the past is about to rear up and attack him.
The Indelibility of the Past. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a novel haunted by the past. Henchard’s fateful decision to sell his wife and child at Weydon-Priors continues to shape his life eighteen years later, while the town itself rests upon its former incarnation: every farmer who tills a field turns up the remains of long-dead Roman soldiers.
