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In a fit of drunken bitterness, a young hay trusser, Michael Henchard, provides his better half, Susan, to Mr. Newson, a sailor, at a country rational. The transaction also includes their girl, Elizabeth Jane. When sober the very next day, he regrets his action but looks for them in vain which is eventually told they could have emigrated. Eighteen years later Henchard is the Mayor of Casterbridge, and the people of the town believe that him to be a widower. Recently he has already established an affair with a young woman in Shirt, Lucetta, while travelling there on business. She inherits a lot of money and involves Casterbridge to persuade Henchard to make 'an honest girl' of her. However, Susan, having lost her hubby at sea, results with the now grown up Elizabeth Jane. The Mayor, desperate to atone for his criminal offense of years before, remarries her. To complicate concerns further, a young ambitious Scot, Donald Farfrae, has settled in the town at Henchard's instigation. Despite their rapidly worsening business relationship, Donald at first casts a pleased vision at Elizabeth Jane but falls in love with Lucetta. What follows will destroy Henchard and cause all the key protagonists an immeasurable amount of mental pain as betrayal, fatality and destiny play their parts in a tale filled with suspense.
