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100			_aHardy, Thomas
245		4	_aThe Mayor of Casterbridge
260			_bLongman Group UK Ltd
260			_c1988
300			_a378
520			_aAt 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 (21).Eighteen years later, Henchard is now a successful grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. Henchard has avoided explaining the circumstances of the "loss" of his wife, allowing people to assume he is a widower...Elizabeth resurfaces again after Eighteen years....what happens next?...
650			_aJuvenile Fiction
942			_2DDC
942			_cBook
999			_c152 _d152