The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy Audiobook

Written by Thomas Hardy
Read by Tony Britton
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
· Release date: 05-05-09
· Publisher: Chivers/Brilliance Audio

The rise and fall of Michael Henchard.

While out-of-work he gets drunk at a fair and impulsively sells his wife and baby for five guineas to a sailor. Eighteen years later he is reunited with his wife and daughter, who discover that he has gained wealth and respect and is now the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Though he attempts to make amends he is no less impulsive and once again loses everything due to bad luck and his violent, selfish and vengeful nature.

In this dramatic audiobook, Hardy sympathetically portrays a deeply flawed tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance from his community. It poses the question: do we shape our own fate or is the outcome inevitable? This tragic tale is played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

Thomas Hardy was an English writer and one of the most significant novelists and poets of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was greatly influenced by Charles Dickens and William Wordsworth.

Narrator Biography
In 1952, Tony Britton came to major attention after his role as Rameses in The Firstborn at London’s Winter Garden Theatre. A renowned classical stage star, he has also appeared in numerous British films since the 1950s…. Over the years Tony has lent his soothing voice to a huge collection of audio productions including Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn and Anthony Trollope’s An Old Man’s Love.

There are three good reading of this book recorded. This is the requested version……J