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THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
The Mayor of Casterbridge is, from beginning to end, the story of Michael Henchard, a skilled farm laborer who, in a drunken rage, sells his young wife, along with their infant child, to a passing sailor. Most of the novel takes place eighteen to twenty years after this event. When the sailor is reported lost at sea, the cast-off wife and now-grown daughter set out to find Michael, who has become an affluent businessman and the mayor of Casterbridge. Michael’s success is temporary, though, as circumstances and his own weaknesses of character combine to bring about his downfall in spite of his attempts to right the wrong he committed years before. Micheal Henchard's wife tries to find his husband but she gets to know that he is already dead from Abel Whittle, an enemy of Michael Henchard but he has become humble and gentle now and takes care of Michael Henchard's wife and daughter there after.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
English writer Thomas Hardy is best known for his novels Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1896). He spent most of his life in rural Dorset, which provided a background for his fiction. Trained as an architect, he spent five years in London at that profession before finding success as a novelist in the 1870s. . His grief after his wife's death in 1912 led to the highly-praised Poems of 1912-13, even though his marriage had been an unhappy one. He remarried in 1914, and his wife, Florence Dugdale, is credited with writing his biography, although it's believed he dictated it to her before he died. His heart was interred at Dorset's Stinson Church, but his remains (he was cremated) were interred in the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.
The Mayor of Casterbridge is, from beginning to end, the story of Michael Henchard, a skilled farm laborer who, in a drunken rage, sells his young wife, along with their infant child, to a passing sailor. Most of the novel takes place eighteen to twenty years after this event. When the sailor is reported lost at sea, the cast-off wife and now-grown daughter set out to find Michael, who has become an affluent businessman and the mayor of Casterbridge. Michael’s success is temporary, though, as circumstances and his own weaknesses of character combine to bring about his downfall in spite of his attempts to right the wrong he committed years before. Micheal Henchard's wife tries to find his husband but she gets to know that he is already dead from Abel Whittle, an enemy of Michael Henchard but he has become humble and gentle now and takes care of Michael Henchard's wife and daughter there after.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
English writer Thomas Hardy is best known for his novels Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1896). He spent most of his life in rural Dorset, which provided a background for his fiction. Trained as an architect, he spent five years in London at that profession before finding success as a novelist in the 1870s. . His grief after his wife's death in 1912 led to the highly-praised Poems of 1912-13, even though his marriage had been an unhappy one. He remarried in 1914, and his wife, Florence Dugdale, is credited with writing his biography, although it's believed he dictated it to her before he died. His heart was interred at Dorset's Stinson Church, but his remains (he was cremated) were interred in the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.