In the canon
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1886
- Pages
- Pages 380
A drunken young man sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair, then swears off drink and claws his way up to become mayor of an English town, until the family he sold, and his own hidden past, return to pull him down.
I'll sell her for five guineas to any man that will pay me the money, and treat her well
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