Drunk on rum-laced furmity at Weydon-Priors fair, Michael Henchard auctions his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor. Eighteen years later he is the prosperous mayor of Casterbridge, and the return of Susan and Elizabeth-Jane, together with the arrival of the clever young Scot Donald Farfrae, sets his past and his temper working against him.
Hardy’s study of a man of character, one of the great tragic novels of Victorian England. Download the free EPUB.