The Mayor of Casterbridge
This a book by Thomas Hardy. He was an English writer famous for his novels, short stories and poems. He was born in 1840 and died in 1928. And this novel got published in 1886.
The main characters of this novel are Thomas Hardy, Susan and Elizabeth Jane, Michale Henchard. Michael Henchard is the main character of this story. This story is all about Michael Henchard and his family. One day when Michael Henchard with his children and his wife was going to a place, suddenly they saw a restaurant and they went to that restaurant to eat food. When they started eating food Mr Michael Henchard saw a woman who was selling wine. After that, he bought a bottle of wine and started drinking wine. When he finished his bottle of wine he started shouting in the restaurant. After that, he sold his wife and child for five guineas to a seller. And the seller took them to his village. When they were going from there Susan took his ring out of her hand and threw it to Michael Blanchard’s face. Next morning when Michael Blanchard got up he realized that he had done very bad. So he started searching for his wife and his child that where they have gone, after that again he goes to that restaurant and swears that he will not touch the wine in his whole life. Furthermore, after 18 years ago when Susan and her child went to that village in which they both were sold by their husband. When they both went to that restaurant they asked a worker of a restaurant about Michael Henchard. Suddenly, a man came into that place and said to them that Michael Henchard is a very rich person, and many people are going to meet him. On the other hand, Miss Susan wrote a letter to her husband to meet her and her husband met him in a secret place. After that Susan did another marriage to Henchard. On the other day of marriage, Susan got ill and died soon after her remarriage to Henchard.
One day Mr Henchard comes back to Casterbridge for the wedding of Elizabeth-Jane, but he leaves again, telling her that he will not return. Soon after Elizabeth-Jane, and his husband goes looking for Henchard so that she can make her peace. Unfortunately, they find him too late, discovering that he has died alone in the countryside. He has left a will: his dying wish is to be forgotten.