The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
472 pages~8 hrs
“The past you sell will always find its way back home.”
One impulsive, shameful act changes Michael Henchard’s life forever, driving him to rebuild himself as the powerful Mayor of Casterbridge. As the ghosts of his past return to the gates of Wessex, he must face a reckoning for a debt that can never truly be repaid.
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