Janet's review
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
Janet's review
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Janet's review
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in-2008
I was very pleasantly surprised. I listened to the unabridged tape. The story has surprising twists and turns, is well written and easy to understand and keeps your attention. It was published in 1866 and conveys the lifestyle of an English village before the industrial revolution. It catches your attention right from the start by an impoverished drunken young man selling his wife one evening at a fair and waking up the next morning regretting it and vowing to turn his life around and not to drink for 21 years.
