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The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)

The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)

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Number of Chapters: 45

Length: 12 hours and 51 minutes

Language: English

Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural and small-town England in the mid-1800s. In the original subtitle, Hardy called this the story of "a man of character," and the central character, Michael Henchard, is one of English fiction's greatest creations. Henchard is deeply developed as a realistic character, but also larger-than-life in the manner of a Greek or Shakespearean tragic hero — huge in his determination and huge in his failings. The novel deals with the struggles between individual will, the hold of the past, and the relentless control of circumstances in a changing society. (Summary by Bruce Pirie)

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Chapter 01 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 02 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 03 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 04 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 05 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 06 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 07 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 08 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 09 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 10 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 11 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 12 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 13 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 14 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 15 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 16 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 17 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 18 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 19 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 20 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 21 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 22 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 23 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 24 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 25 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 26 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 27 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 28 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 29 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 30 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 31 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 32 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 33 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 34 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 35 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 36 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 37 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 38 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 39 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 40 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 41 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 42 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 43 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 44 (Bruce Pirie)
Chapter 45 (Bruce Pirie)
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