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The Mayor of Casterbridge

其他書名	Thomas Hardy
出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-12-26
主題	Fiction / ClassicsFiction / Family Life / General
ISBN	15412942389781541294233
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WiVFMQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Mayor of CasterbridgeOriginal and CompleteThomas HardyThe Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rural England.Hardy began writing the book in 1884 and wrote the last page on 17 April 1885. Within the book, he writes that the events took place "before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span". Literary critic Dale Kramer sees it as being set somewhat later-in the late 1840s, corresponding to Hardy's youth in Dorchester.At a country fair near Casterbridge, Wessex, a young hay-trusser named Michael Henchard gets drunk on rum-laced furmity and argues with his wife, Susan. He decides to auction off his wife and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, to a sailor, Mr. Newson, for five guineas. Sober the next day, he is too late to recover his family. When he realises that his wife and daughter are gone, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far.