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A short summary of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Mayor of Casterbridge.
The poor, old woman directs Susan to Casterbridge. Susan and Elizabeth-Jane arrive in Casterbridge and find a group of the local residents gathered outside The Golden Crown Hotel where they see Henchard occupied inside at a grand meal. They learn that Henchard is now the mayor of Casterbridge.
The Mayor of Casterbridge begins at a country fair in Wessex, a fictional English county. Drunk on rum, 21-year-old Michael Henchard feuds with his wife, Susan. In a drunken rage, he impulsively auctions her and their baby daughter for five guineas.
Susan and Elizabeth-Jane, the latter innocent of the shameful sale eighteen years before, reach Casterbridge, where they discover that Henchard has become the mayor and one of the wealthiest businessmen in the area.
The Mayor of Casterbridge, written by Thomas Hardy and first published in 1886. The novel that follows the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a man who sells his wife and daughter while drunk and later becomes the mayor of the fictional town of Casterbridge.
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