The Mayor of Casterbridge
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 Hardy spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886.
The Mayor of Casterbridge is considered to be one of Thomas Hardy's masterpieces, although it has been criticised for incorporating too many incidents. Hardy himself felt that in his efforts to get an incident into almost every weekly instalment he had added events to the narrative somewhat too freely, resulting in over-elaboration. However, he was deeply affected, telling a friend that the novel was the only tragedy that made him weep while writing it.
Excerpted from The Mayor of Casterbridge on Wikipedia.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Genre | Psychological fiction, Literary fiction |
| Copyright | Public domain in the United States. |
| Book cover | Michael Henchard, on the way to a fair to sell his wife and baby daughter. Author: Robert Barnes | wikipedia |
| Ebooks | Project Gutenberg |
| Scans | Cornell University |
| Audio | Librivox | Internet Archive Reader: Bruce Pirie 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 |
| Read online | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
