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Book · 1886 · Fiction

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy
Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 448 pages
★ 7.0 editorial score

Drunk at a country fair, a farm laborer sells his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. Years later he is mayor of Casterbridge, and Hardy lets the past collect.

Medium
Novel
Time
1886Depicts Victorian Era (Britain)

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