Mayor of Casterbridge

''Hardy''s is a world that can never disappear'' Margaret Drabble

Subtitled ''A Story of a Man of Character'', Hardy''s powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town. Its events are set in motion when, in a fit of drunken anger, Henchard sells his wife and baby daught...