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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

Author
Thomas Hardy
Narrator
Aaron Myers, Miles Turner
Publisher
Manifold Media LLC
Publish Date
16 October 2025
Run Time
12 hours 42 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Classic fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. Support us at https://manifoldmedia.net/donate

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Author
Thomas Hardy
Narrator
Aaron Myers, Miles Turner
Duration
12 hours 42 minutes
Release Date
16 October 2025
ISBN
0782376064144
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Manifold Media LLC
Genre
Classic fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre

Synopsis

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. Support us at https://manifoldmedia.net/donate

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