Name: The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886) NOVEL
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Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781534683273

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The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886) NOVEL

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Hardy

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

244

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN13

9781534683273

Synopsis "The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886) NOVEL"

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rural England. Hardy began writing the book in 1884 and wrote the last page on 17 April 1885. Within the book, he writes that the events took place "before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span". Literary critic Dale Kramer sees it as being set somewhat later-in the late 1840s, corresponding to Hardy's youth in Dorcheste At a country fair near Casterbridge, Wessex, a young hay-trusser named Michael Henchard gets drunk on rum-laced furmity and argues with his wife, Susan. He decides to auction off his wife and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, to a sailor, Mr. Newson, for five guineas. Sober the next day, he is too late to recover his family. When he realises that his wife and daughter are gone, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far (21)Eighteen years later, Henchard is now a successful grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. Henchard has avoided explaining the circumstances of the "loss" of his wife, allowing people to assume he is a widower.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced in both his novels and his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth

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