"Susan decides to seek out Henchard again, taking her daughter with her. Susan has told Elizabeth-Jane little about Henchard; the young woman knows only that he is a relative by marriage. Susan discovers that Henchard has become a very successful grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. He has avoided explaining how he lost his wife, allowing people to assume he is a widower. When the couple are reunited, Henchard proposes remarrying Susan after a sham courtship, as this is the simplest and most discreet way to remedy matters and prevent Elizabeth-Jane learning of their disgrace."
"in the other man’s humiliation, but the experience proves prophetic of several burdens assumed during the novel and the difficulty characters will have sustaining them. For instance, soon after the hunting incident, Michael’s son Paul almost dies from exposure after searching for his dog in the snow. Then Michael’s wife, Kristin, breaks her leg trying to carry her son home. After this trauma, Michael finds his relations with his wife deteriorating, and so he turns to the attentions of Lara Purcell, a professor of political science. A femme fatale with an interest in Caribbean voodoo, Lara leads Michael into high-stakes"
"right the long-ago wrong sets in motion a series of events that spell his destruction. The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV series) The Mayor of Casterbridge is a 1978 BBC seven-part serial based on the eponymous book by the British novelist Thomas Hardy. The six hour drama was written by television dramatist Dennis Potter with Alan Bates as the title character. It was released as a 3-disc DVD box set in May 2003. On a drunken impulse, Henchard sells his wife and daughter at a country fair, an outrageous act for which he suffers agonizing remorse. Years later, when he has"
"number of books together including ""Horse Housekeeping"". Korda has written about his personal life and his hobbies. Korda is also an avid horseman and fox hunter and he authored ""Horse People"" and ""Horse Housekeeping"". Korda met his second wife, Margaret, while riding in Central Park. In 2001, Korda released ""Country Matters"" which chronicled his life at his second home, Stonegate Farm. Michael Korda Michael Korda (born 8 October 1933) is an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City. Born in London, Michael Korda is the son of English actress Gertrude Musgrove, and"
"but he is (as he sees it) tricked out of the land in an auction. The Hillcrists plan to get even with the upstart Hornblower and fortuitously learn a dark secret about Mr. Hornblower's daughter-in-law Chloe who had once supported herself as the ""other party"" in divorce cases. When he is told the news, Mr. Hornblower agrees to sell the property to the Hillcrists for less than half the auction price on the condition that the family swears to keep the secret, but the news leaks out via the unprincipled Dawker, Hillcrist's agent and Hornblower’s enemy. Chloe Hornblower goes to"
"awards for his pro bono work and public service. In 1994, Barrister Magazine named him one of the top 25 young lawyers in America. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his wife, Lara Bernhardt, the novelist (The Wantland Files) and audiobook narrator, and their children. On October 10, 2013, Bernhardt became a Jeopardy! champion, fulfilling a lifelong dream of appearing on that quiz show. ""Ben Kincaid"" Series Other Books William Bernhardt William Bernhardt is an American thriller/mystery/suspense fiction author best known for his ""Ben Kincaid"" series of books. Bernhardt has sold more than 10 million books in the US and"
"Wife selling (English custom) Wife selling in England was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage by mutual agreement that probably began in the late 17th century, when divorce was a practical impossibility for all but the very wealthiest. After parading his wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, a husband would publicly auction her to the highest bidder. Wife selling provides the backdrop for Thomas Hardy's novel ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"", in which the central character sells his wife at the beginning of the story, an act that haunts him for the rest of his life,"
"scheme for imposing Prohibition on the United States—purely as a means of making himself an unsurpassed fortune; and finally, in 1958, with Eddie West now the richest man in the world, but also criminally insane, the story shifts to his second son, Walter, a non-criminal architect, and his beautiful new black wife—a woman that the murderous racist Eddie West intends to torture and kill. The book is divided into three parts: ""The Minotaur"" (the longest); ""Theseus and Wife""; and ""The Labyrinth"". Curiously enough, it was published within a few months of a somewhat similar novel about multi-generational New York gangsters,"
"time together. The book was published in 1972 by Hawthorn Books with paperback editions issued by Pyramid Books. In 1985, he bought the Franklin Castle, a historic four-story stone mansion on Franklin Boulevard in Cleveland's Ohio City for $93,000 and had it restored. Deans donated a feather boa that had belonged to Garland to a charity auction. He then placed the highest bid in order to maintain ownership of it. After selling Franklin Castle in 1999, Deans lived in Northfield, Ohio. Deans died of congestive heart failure in Cleveland, Ohio on July 11, 2003 at the age of 68. Rather"
"or Wynreford runs into the sea here. Seatown beach is popular with fossil collectors, with rock of Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous. The beach is privately owned; it is free to access but parking is charged. 'Furmity'—a mix of wheat, dried fruit and sugar, often with added spirits—was one of the products sold at a Whit Monday Fair which used to be held in Seatown. In Thomas Hardy's novel ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"", the character Michael Henchard got drunk on laced furmity and sold his wife while inebriated. Seatown Seatown is a coastal hamlet in Dorset, England, sited on the English Channel"
"becomes a successful businessman and arms manufacturer. His younger son Martin is not interested in money and is an idealist and altruist. Elder son Ernest is an egoist who believes that money is the greatest power in the world. Ernest loves Amy Drumhill, the niece of Gregory Sessions, owner of a steel factory. Amy marries Martin, however, who establishes a hospital and dies in the American Civil War. Ernest's hardness ruins Joseph, and he is cursed by his mother. This story of the Bouchard clan is continued through World War II in Caldwell's later novels ""The Eagles Gather"" (1940) and"
"an acrimonious divorce in 1985. He and his second wife, Carla, live in New York City with their three children. In 2004, at the time that his memoir ""Father Joe"" was achieving best-seller status, Jessica Hendra, the younger of Hendra's two daughters from his first marriage, submitted an op-ed piece to ""The New York Times"" in which she asserted that her father failed to include in his narrative of ""deliverance through faith and atonement for his failings"" that he had sexually abused her as a young child. The newspaper declined to publish the piece, but did assign a reporter, N."
"his first to be published in the United States, are ""The Amulet of Samarkand"", ""The Golem's Eye"", ""Ptolemy's Gate"", and prequel ""The Ring of Solomon"". Stroud lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire, with his three children, Isabelle, Arthur, and Louis, and his wife Gina, an illustrator of children's books. In 2013, ""Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase"" was released, and quickly achieved high critical acclaim, with Rick Riordan calling Stroud a ""genius"". The second book, ""The Whispering Skull"", was released in September 2014. A third novel, titled ""The Hollow Boy"", was announced through a competition orchestrated by Stroud, asking readers to"
"Michigan. Ryan's second novel, the satirical How (Not) to Have a Perfect Wedding, was published by Sourcebooks in 2007 and was inspired by Ryan's experiences working on the event staff at the Astor's Beechwood Mansion. Ryan's third novel, The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare, is a work of historical fiction that takes romantic and creative liberties with the Shakespeare authorship question. In it, Ryan postulates William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway is the true author of many of Shakespeare's plays. It was published by New American Library/Penguin Books in 2010. Ryan currently resides in St. Augustine, FL with her husband, naval"
"had carried his wife's body to his shop after her death and slit her wrist to collect blood for making the red varnish. He admits to the auction manager, Leroux, that he has the Red Violin. As he prepares to fly home, Morritz stops by the auction house ""Duval's"", with the London copy in hand. As the auction for the previous lot ends, Morritz switches the Red Violin for the London copy, which is sold for $2.4 million. Morritz calls his wife at home in New York City and asks to speak to his daughter, telling her he has a"
"the end of the book, he sells his few remaining possessions to provide for his daughters so that they might look splendid at a ball. The relations between family members follow two patterns: the bonds of marriage serve mostly as Machiavellian means to financial ends, while the obligations of the older generation to the young take the form of sacrifice and deprivation. Delphine is trapped in a loveless marriage to Baron de Nucingen, a money-savvy banker. He is aware of her extramarital affairs, and uses them as a means to extort money from her. Anastasie, meanwhile, is married to the"
"published anything since his first book, ""Jacob Wrestling"" (a reference to Jacob wrestling with the angel), an innovative and ""difficult"" modernist novel that sold well and made his name, including in the United States. Ten years before the novel begins he took out a forty-year lease on a dilapidated but beautiful castle, hoping to find either inspiration or isolation there. Now his family is selling off the furniture to buy food. The widowed Mortmain's second wife, Topaz, is a beautiful artist's model who enjoys communing with nature, sometimes wearing nothing but hip boots. Rose, Mortmain's elder daughter, is a classic"
"sale in a sickened state. As he attempts to have them tossed into the ocean, chains and all, the shipmates revolt. As the first part of the book ends, the fate of the ""Liverpool Merchant"" remains unclear. Roughly a decade on, the second part of the book initially focuses on the fate of Erasmus. Having recovered from bankruptcy and the shame of his father's death, he has married into a wealthy family. His wife Margaret is the daughter of a wealthy man, Sir Hugo, President of the West India Association. Their marriage is clearly one of mere convenience. It seems"
"Henry Lightcap's third wife storms out of the house and his life, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and decides to drive across the country journeying to his childhood home in West Virginia. In a review for ""The New York Times"", Howard Coale said it was ""a particularly self-involved novel"" and while praising the sentimental moments of the book, he notes ""Unfortunately they are drowned out to almost a murmur by the harpings of a slightly malevolent and self-indulgent voice."" Genaro Gonzalez, writing for the ""Los Angeles Times"", gave it ""an eager recommendation"" ""Publishers Weekly"" gave it a positive"
"circulation in Britain, although most of these were infringing copies (a similar situation occurred in the United States). The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza—to a slave trader. Emily Shelby is averse to this idea because she had promised her"
"and makes him different from his contemporary Norman Rockwell. Johnson, reviewing a Wyeth exhibition in 2006, likened ""Public Sale"" to ""an understated Thomas Hart Benton painting"". Public Sale (painting) Public Sale is a 1943 painting by the American artist Andrew Wyeth. It shows two men by a car and in the distance a crowd of people outside a farm building. The event depicted is the forced auction of a farm after the farmer's wife had died. The painting belongs to the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 2000. As of 2016, it is currently not on view. Ken Johnson of ""The"
"is diagnosed as being in a state of toxic shock. An emergency hysterectomy is performed to save her life, eliminating all chances of her ever giving birth again. She is taken home to Michael where she remains in a deep coma. Much of the book is set into four sections of ""Julien's Story"" which delineates the life of Julien Mayfair and what he has discovered of the entity known as Lasher. Lasher returns to the house to tell Michael and Aaron his story of his past life. Born to Queen Anne of England, the second wife of Henry VIII, and"
"returned to the United States to work for Knopf. Victor married his second wife, American lawyer Carol Ryan, and after a year travelling they made their main home in London to be close to Victor's children. Victor was one of the first former journalist/editors to make the move to be a publishing agent, when in the 1970s literary agents were not welcomed by British publishers. However, many changed their minds when Victor's first sale in 1976 was for the book and film rights to Stephen Shephard's novel ""The Four Hundred"" for $1.5m. In 2005, Victor's client John Banville won the"
"Simple and other publications. Her nonfiction work includes the 1986 memoir 'Mother Less Child' (WW Norton) and essays in more than 30 anthologies. Mitchard married Dan Allegretti, a reporter for ""The Capital Times"", and the couple had three children (Robert, Daniel, and Martin). Dan also had a daughter, Jocelyn, from a previous marriage. After 13 years of marriage, Allegretti died of cancer at the age of 45 in 1993. After the death of Allegretti, while working freelance for the ""Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"" and a part-time public relations position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she started writing her first novel, ""The"
"Books in 1978 and 1984; the novel was also reprinted in the collection ""Keith Laumer: the Lighter Side"", published by Baen Books in 2002, and in an omnibus edition with Poul Anderson's ""Inside Earth"" as ""A Hoax in Time/Inside Earth"" (Armchair Fiction Double Novel #31), published by Armchair Fiction in 2011. It has also been translated into French under the title ""L'Ordinateur Désordonné"" Chester W. Chester IV inherits a run-down mansion and millions in back taxes. In order to pay the taxes, he initially decides to auction off the mansion and its contents, including a massive computer (the Generalized Nonlinear"
"from June 2018 that the final book will be written in 2020 and published in 2021 Once a successful trial lawyer in Chicago, Ben's life takes a dramatic change when his wife Annie and their unborn child are killed in a traffic accident. Ben sinks into depression and no longer gains fulfillment through the law firm he established with his best friend, Miles Bennett. Seeing a Christmas catalog advertising a fairytale kingdom for sale, he purchases it for $1,000,000 in a desperate hope to find something meaningful again. The kingdom, called Landover, turns out to be very real and in"
"its perceived advocacy of magic and witchcraft. ""Curses, Hexes, and Spells"" is number 73 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000. Cohen wrote on numerous other topics, including sports, history, dinosaurs, nature, technology, and folklore. He lived in Middle Township, New Jersey with his wife, Susan. By 2011 Cohen had suffered a stroke. Cohen died on May 6, 2018, aged 82. Cohen's daughter, Theodora, died in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103. He and his wife Susan cowrote a book about it, entitled ""Pam Am 103: The Bombing, The Betrayals, and"
"in Rolling Stone. His newest release is titled ""We Must Believe in Magic"". He is the author of three children's books – ""Momma Loves Her Little Son"", ""Daddy Loves His Little Girl"", and his latest release, ""The Cat in the Rhinestone Suit"". He authored a biography on his mother, ""Anchored in Love"" (which was turned into a Lifetime movie titled ""Ring of Fire"") and one on his personal relationship with his father, ""House of Cash: The Legacies of My Father Johnny Cash"". His first novel, a fantasy titled ""Lupus Rex"", was released in June 2013. He is the husband of"
"that he would like better leadership training for MBA students. Welch had four children with his first wife, Carolyn. They divorced amicably in April 1987 after 28 years of marriage. His second wife, Jane Beasley, was a former mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer. She married Welch in April 1989, and they divorced in 2003. While Welch had crafted a prenuptial agreement, Beasley insisted on a ten-year time limit to its applicability, and thus she was able to leave the marriage reportedly with around $180 million. Welch's third wife, Suzy Wetlaufer (née Spring), co-authored his 2005 book ""Winning"" as Suzy Welch. She served briefly"
"work for a book publisher in 1958 (and the need to earn a regular paycheck) that slowed me down"". Michael Korda is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus for Simon & Schuster. Michael Korda married first wife Carolyn ""Casey"" Keese in 1958, and had one child, Chris. Chris became the leader of the Church of Euthanasia. Korda later married Margaret Mogford, a former fashion model and also former wife of photographer Burt Glinn. The two shared a love of horses and met at the Claremont Riding Academy near Central Park while they were both still married to their first spouses. They two co-authored a"
"and ""Cathedral"". Henderson lives on the East End of Long Island and in Maine with his wife, Genie Chipps Henderson. His daughter, Lily Frances Henderson, is a filmmaker and director based in Brooklyn, New York. He owns and runs ""The World's Smallest Bookstore"", located in Sedgwick, Maine. Bill Henderson (publisher) Bill Henderson (born April 5, 1941) is an American author, editor and publisher best known for his memoirs and the Pushcart Prize series. Bill Henderson is founder and editor of Pushcart Press, publisher of the annual ""Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses"". His anthology, featuring fiction, poetry and essays,"
"plan to sell their house to a childhood friend of Mike and Carol's named Richie Flanscopper. Acting as the realtor, Ben is dead set on selling the house, but the rest of the Seaver kids object. Mike and Carol (who is pregnant) take matters into their own hands and sabotage the house so their little brother can't sell it to Richie and his wife Fiona. Meanwhile, Mike's oldest child, Michelle, is sad about her dad going to Tokyo for a job promotion. In the end, Ben realizes that his siblings and parents don't want to sell the house, so he"
"while staying with his great friend, Lord Sheffield. Gibbon's estate was valued at approx. £26,000. He left most of his property to cousins. As stipulated in his will, Sheffield oversaw the sale of his library at auction to William Beckford for £950. Gibbon's work has been criticised for its scathing view of Christianity as laid down in chapters XV and XVI, a situation which resulted in the banning of the book in several countries. Gibbon's alleged crime was disrespecting, and none too lightly, the character of sacred Christian doctrine, by ""treat[ing] the Christian church as a phenomenon of general history,"