# Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3)

An audiobook by Thomas Hardy, read by LibriVox volunteers (11 h 29 min, English).

In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and swears off drink, until his wife and daughter return eighteen years later, when he is now well-off and the Mayor of Casterbridge. - Summary by Alisson Veldhuis

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