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An edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge (1800)

The Mayor of Casterbridge

with related readings

printing (1)

by

  • ★★★★ ★ 4.8 (5 ratings)
  • 24 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

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 next day, overcome with remorse, Henchard resolves to turn his life around. When we meet Henchard eighteen years later, temperance and hard work have made him wealthy and respectable. However, he cannot escape his past. His secret guilt, his pride, and his impulsive temper all serve to sabotage his good name.

The Mayor of Casterbridge was published in 1886, first as a magazine serial and then later that year as a book. It is perhaps most noteworthy for the psychological portrait of Michael Henchard, a tragic character who remains sympathetic while simultaneously being deeply flawed. Typical of other Hardy novels, it also vividly depicts life in the rural countryside at that time.
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English
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293

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1953, pan books ltd
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The life and Death of The Mayor of Casterbridge
1920, macmillan and co.
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Table of Contents

The Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy
Related Readings: The Profitable reading of fiction / Thomas Hardy (essay)
To Millicent Fawcett. To Florence Dugdale / Thomas Hardy (letters)
Frumente yn lentyn. Frumenty / Anonymous (recipes)
The Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe (short story)
Androcles and the lion / retold by Joseph Jacobs (folk tale).

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For use in teaching "classics and literature."

Published in
New York
Series
The Glencoe literature library
Copyright Date
2001

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Library of Congress
PR4750 .M25 2001c

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
iv, 293 pages
Number of pages
293

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL35325239M
Internet Archive
mayorofcasterbri0000hard_e6f5
ISBN 10
0078258537
ISBN 13
9780078258534
OCLC/WorldCat
68263778
Goodreads
59471037

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OL8193406W

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