# The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.

- [The Sale of a Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/i.md): In late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young couple—Michael Henchard and his wife Susan—approach the village of Weydon-Priors with their infant daughter. They walk in strained 
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/ii.md): Michael Henchard awakens after selling his wife and child at the fair. He finds his wife's ring and the sailor's banknotes, confirming the events were real. After a period of regret and anger, he takes a solemn oath in a
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/iii.md): Susan Henchard, now calling herself Mrs. Newson, returns to the fair at Weydon-Priors with her daughter Elizabeth-Jane, eighteen years after Henchard sold her. The fair has declined, and Susan seeks information about Hen
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/iv.md): Susan Henchard, burdened by her past and the secret of her marriage to Michael Henchard, decides to seek him out in Casterbridge in hopes of improving her daughter Elizabeth-Jane's prospects. She reveals nothing of the t
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/v.md): Elizabeth-Jane and her mother Susan arrive in Casterbridge and observe a public dinner at the King's Arms hotel, where they discover that Michael Henchard is the Mayor. Through conversations with locals, they learn of He

> 40 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se_1141kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [The Return of Susan and Elizabeth-Jane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [Chapter XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xix.md)
- [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxiii.md)
- [Chapter XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxvii.md)
- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxviii.md)
- [Chapter XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxix.md)
- [Chapter XXX: The Revelation of Lucetta's Marriage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxx.md)
- [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxxi.md)
- [Chapter XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxxii.md)
- [Chapter XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxxiii.md)
- [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxxiv.md)
- [XXXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxxv.md)
- [Chapter XXXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxxvi.md)
- [Chapter XXXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxxvii.md)
- [Chapter XXXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxxviii.md)
- [Chapter XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xxxix.md)
- [Chapter XL](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xl.md)
- [XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xli.md)
- [Chapter XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xlii.md)
- [XLIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xliii.md)
- [XLIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xliv.md)
- [XLV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mayor_of_casterbridge_se/chapters/xlv.md)

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