The Mayor of Casterbridge
At a country fair, drunk and resentful, the young hay-trusser Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor. He wakes ashamed, swears off drink, and over the next eighteen years remakes himself into the prosperous mayor of Casterbridge. Then the woman he wronged returns, and the buried past begins to pull his hard-won life apart. Thomas Hardy traces the slow ruin of a proud, impulsive man undone as much by his own temperament as by circumstance, set against the fading rural Wessex he made his own. First published in 1886, the novel stands among his finest studies of character and fate. This free PDF and EPUB edition brings a lasting classic of English fiction to new readers.
About the Author
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose fiction, set in a half-imagined Wessex, probed fate, class, and the constraints of Victorian society. His major novels are cornerstones of English literature.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapter 01 | 27:58 | |
| 2 | Chapter 02 | 9:31 | |
| 3 | Chapter 03 | 10:22 | |
| 4 | Chapter 04 | 15:54 | |
| 5 | Chapter 05 | 13:20 | |
| 6 | Chapter 06 | 10:02 | |
| 7 | Chapter 07 | 15:32 | |
| 8 | Chapter 08 | 15:13 | |
| 9 | Chapter 09 | 18:06 | |
| 10 | Chapter 10 | 8:55 | |
| 11 | Chapter 11 | 12:06 | |
| 12 | Chapter 12 | 11:31 | |
| 13 | Chapter 13 | 10:13 | |
| 14 | Chapter 14 | 19:37 | |
| 15 | Chapter 15 | 15:04 | |
| 16 | Chapter 16 | 14:12 | |
| 17 | Chapter 17 | 15:11 | |
| 18 | Chapter 18 | 10:13 | |
| 19 | Chapter 19 | 17:30 | |
| 20 | Chapter 20 | 21:09 | |
| 21 | Chapter 21 | 15:59 | |
| 22 | Chapter 22 | 22:16 | |
| 23 | Chapter 23 | 17:10 | |
| 24 | Chapter 24 | 18:03 | |
| 25 | Chapter 25 | 11:16 | |
| 26 | Chapter 26 | 22:23 | |
| 27 | Chapter 27 | 19:24 | |
| 28 | Chapter 28 | 9:41 | |
| 29 | Chapter 29 | 17:43 | |
| 30 | Chapter 30 | 10:49 | |
| 31 | Chapter 31 | 10:01 | |
| 32 | Chapter 32 | 16:35 | |
| 33 | Chapter 33 | 16:43 | |
| 34 | Chapter 34 | 18:17 | |
| 35 | Chapter 35 | 10:20 | |
| 36 | Chapter 36 | 20:21 | |
| 37 | Chapter 37 | 14:52 | |
| 38 | Chapter 38 | 14:59 | |
| 39 | Chapter 39 | 14:58 | |
| 40 | Chapter 40 | 12:28 | |
| 41 | Chapter 41 | 20:43 | |
| 42 | Chapter 42 | 16:14 | |
| 43 | Chapter 43 | 19:58 | |
| 44 | Chapter 44 | 21:28 | |
| 45 | Chapter 45 | 15:09 |
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