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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.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge, written by Thomas Hardy and first published in 1886. 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.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge. Thomas Hardy, Keith Wilson (Editor, Introduction) 3.86. 62,922 ratings3,126 reviews. Librarian note: The same ISBN is now being used here with a new cover. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair.
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.
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