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The Mayor of Casterbridge Suspense and the harsh realities ofIn a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Years later, he becomes a respected and prosperous figure in the town of Casterbridge, yet he is haunted by the shameful secret of his past and a self destructive personality. Subtitled A Story of a Man of Character, Hardys powerful study of the heroic but flawed Henchard is a dramatic tale set against the vivid backdrop of a close knit