The Mayor of Casterbridge

I. Disadvantageous Shabbiness 9

II. A Little Shining Object 21

III. The Highroad 25

IV. Ordinary Relations 30

V. Wi’ the Mayor in the Chair 37

VI. A Stranger 43

VII. This Homely Place 48

VIII. Thus They Parted 55

IX. The Feel of Imminent Autumn 62

X. In Return for his Unkindness 70

XI. The Ring at Casterbridge 74

XII. Henchard’s Garden 80

XIII. Altogether a Pleasant Spot 86

XIV. A Martinmas Summer 91

XV. Miss Newson’s Budding Beauty 100

XVI. He Was Courteous—too Courteous 107

XVII. Amid Such a Mixed Throng 114

XVIII. A Certain Risk of Intimacy 121

XIX. Bent on Resisting Pain 126

XX. Enigmas 134

XXI. A Maxim Glibly Repeated 144

XXII. My Dear Mr. Henchard 152

XXIII. A Silver-Topped Switch 163

XXIV. Her Malignant Star 171

XXV. The Next Phase of Supersession 180

XXVI. A Fine Spring Morning 185

XXVII. The Eve of Harvest 195

XXVIII. Nothing of Her Was to Be Seen 204

XXIX. Concatenations of Phenomena 209

XXX. Surprise at the Event 218

XXXI. Henchard’s Mad Freak 223

XXXII. The End of High Street 228

XXXIII. A Convivial Custom 236

XXXIV. At Such an Unseemly Time 244

XXXV. Like Spirits from the Grave 253

XXXVI. Any Prospect of an Opening 258

XXXVII. A Royal Personage 268

XXXVIII. The Shake of the Royal Hand 275

XXXIX. A Well-Intentioned but Clumsy 

 Contrivance 282

XL. Lost in Grave Reflection 290

XLI. Another Knock at the Door 296

XLII. In Somebody’s Hand 306

XLIII. On the Casterbridge Stage 314

XLIV. His Solitary Way Eastward 323

XLV. The Novelty of Her Situation 333