The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Story of a Respectable Man

Author's name: Thomas Hardy

“As for me, I don’t see why men who have wives and don’t want them shouldn’t get rid of them like those gypsy fellows do with their old horses,” said the man in the tent. “Why not put them up for auction to men who want such wares? Why not? For Christ’s sake! I’d sell my woman this minute if anyone wanted to buy her!” “There are,” replied some of the guests, looking at his own woman, who wasn’t at all hideous!” * Thomas Hardy, one of the giants of English fiction and poetry. He was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. After dictating his last poem to his second wife on his deathbed, his remains were interred in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey in London in 1928. His heart was removed, as he wished, beside the grave of his first wife, Emma, ​​at Stainsford outside Dorchester.