For 10 points - name this novel about the downfall of Michael Henchard, written by Thomas Hardy.
This novel's title character realizes his unpopularity when no one attends his country dance, forsaking it for the dance held by his rival.  Later on, he is further humiliated when his former mistress and he are set up as effigies on a donkey in a mummers' parade.  That mistress, Lucetta Le Sueur, briefly marries the title character's rival and employs Elizabeth-Jane, the girl he had presumed to be his daughter.  As it turns out, Elizabeth-Jane also marries that rival, Farfrae, and is not the daughter the title character had sold, along with his wife, for five guineas one drunken night.  For 10 points - name this novel about the downfall of Michael Henchard, written by Thomas Hardy.
This novel's title character realizes his unpopularity when no one attends his country dance, forsaking it for the dance held by his rival.  
The Mayor of Casterbridge