The title character of this novel disobeys a town council by waving a homemade flag on the carriage of a Royal Personage. After finding a starved goldfinch in a cage, one character in this novel finds a man dead in Abel Whittle's cottage. A character in this novel suffers a seizure after seeing a "skimmity-ride". A merchant in this novel loses his money after receiving bad advice from a weather prophet. After Lucetta miscarries and dies in this novel, Donald Farfrae remarries with Elizabeth-Jane, who the title character had drunkenly sold. For 10 points, name this Thomas Hardy novel in which Michael Henchard gains and loses the title office.
The title character of this novel disobeys a town council by waving a homemade flag on the carriage of a Royal Personage. After finding a starved goldfinch in a cage, one character in this novel finds a man dead in Abel Whittle's cottage. A character in this novel suffers a seizure after seeing a "skimmity-ride". A merchant in this novel loses his money after receiving bad advice from a weather prophet. After Lucetta miscarries and dies in this novel, Donald Farfrae remarries with Elizabeth-Jane, who the title character had drunkenly sold. For 10 points, name this Thomas Hardy novel in which Michael Henchard gains and loses the title office.