The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

445 pages first pub 1886 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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Like many of Hardy’s novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge is set in the fictional county of Wessex in the mid 1800s. It begins with Michael Henchard, a young hay-trusser, drunk on rum, auctioning off his wife and baby daughter at a village fair. The ...

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