I was surprised how much I liked this book. Ok, it's a classic, the font is tiny, and it looked like a long hard read. The story is about Mr. Henchard, who in a drunken state, sells his wife and infant daughter. Twenty years later, the wife and daughter decide to look for him and discover that he...
Until the near end of the novel, disliking most of the major characters in The Mayor of Casterbridge is easy for a reader to do, if only because these characters’ failures are borne from such sailing ambition (and the uneven pitch of their hearts), that readers have been rolling their eyes at this c...
I'd heard Hardy was a bit of a chore, so out of all of his chunky novels I chose The Mayor of Casterbridge to be my first. I'm not sure it was a wise choice. Not because I thought it was bad by any means. The writing's quite good, the story held my interest, but jeez louise this is bleak stuff! Stor...
One of those books I had to read in high school. I actually liked most of my reading assignments, even the classics everyone was made to read, but this was probably one of the most boring books I ever read. Yes, it was well written. Yes, the characters are all complex. It was still deadly, ponderous...
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