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    The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)

    Written by Thomas Hardy

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    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)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
    Author

    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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      The narrator is superb!! A great old writing presented without flaw.