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It is even less of a social novel than is Cricket.

The story bears some resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two respects: it has a non-urban setting, and it is resolved with a romantic twist. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title.Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. The Battle of Life is an 1846 novel by Charles Dickens.

This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. The sudden return of his wife and daughter presents Henchard with a chance to finally make things right-or doom himself forever. But when Henchard falls in love with a young woman on a trip to the island of Jersey, his inability to marry her threatens to destroy her reputation. Eighteen years later, he is the wealthy-and sober-mayor of Casterbridge, his terrible secret buried deep in the past. The next morning, Henchard swears off drink. He sells his family to a sailor for five guineas, a monstrous crime that marks him for a lifetime of guilt and pain. At the town fair, Henchard quarrels with his wife and drunkenly auctions her and his daughter to the assembled crowd. Summary A captivating story of love and regret from the author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native Young farm worker Michael Henchard arrives in Casterbridge, Wessex, with his wife and child, looking for a job. He does this quite successfully until, nearly 20 years later, his past comes back to haunt him.READ The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy Eventually he is forced to give up the search and move on with his life. When he awakens, sober, the next day he regrets his rash act and vows to give up drink and find his family and bring them home. (Wikipedia)Ī poor, disgruntled, drunken young man sells his wife and child to the highest bidder. The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". Download cover art Download CD case insert The Mayor of Casterbridge