Thomas Hardy · 1886
Michael Henchard sells his wife at a fair and rises to mayor before his fall. Read The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy page by page and explore its…
One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot. They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just now.
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