![]() ![]() ![]() He vows to not drink again for the next twenty-one years. Regaining his sobriety the next day, he can no longer retract the sale because they have all departed. The buyer is Richard Newson, a sailor passing through town. Drunk on rum, twenty-one-year-old Michael Henchard, feuding with his wife, Susan, impulsively auctions her and their baby daughter off for five guineas. The novel begins at a country fair in Wessex, a fictional English county. The novel is known for its rich characterization of the pursuit of social and economic mobility in the mid-nineteenth century and its portrait of how personal vices can damage one’s fate. Taking place in a fictional rural England sometime in the 1840s, the story follows the exploits of a young hay trucker Michael Henchard as he traverses English social life and struggles to improve his standing. The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886) is a novel by Thomas Hardy, an English novelist and poet. ![]()
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