![]() ![]() This is such a complex book with more twists and turns than I can count. What ensues is a tangled web of deceit, love and retribution. Intertwined with all this is his new assistant, Donald Farfrae, a man Elizabeth-Jane has taken a shine to. However, this involves letting down another woman he had hopes of marrying, Lucetta. But when his 'widowed' wife Susan returns with his grown-up daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, he is compelled to do the right thing and marry her. He proceeds to the town of Casterbridge where he works very hard to rise up to be mayor of the town. Afterwards, he regrets his actions, gives up alcohol for twenty one years, and tries to locate them but can't find them. ![]() Published in 1886, The Mayor of Casterbridge offers a very sensational premise: while drunk, Michael Henchard sells his wife and child to a passing sailor. ![]()
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