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The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth.
- Thomas Hardy
- 1886
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The novel that follows the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a man who sells his wife and daughter while drunk and later becomes the mayor of the fictional town of Casterbridge. The novel explores themes of fate, guilt, and the consequences of one’s actions.
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- Thomas Hardy
- 1886
April 3, 2022. This is the story of the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a hot-tempered, proud and irascible hay-trusser who in a drunken haze, sells his wife and baby girl to a sailor at a fair, for five guineas. He regrets his deed the next day, but can not find his wife and child.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge, novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1886, first serially (in the periodical The Graphic) and later that year in book form. The fictional city of Casterbridge provides a picture of Dorchester in the 19th century.
