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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.
- Thomas Hardy
- Novel
- 1886
- 1886
The poor, old woman directs Susan to Casterbridge. Susan and Elizabeth-Jane arrive in Casterbridge and find a group of the local residents gathered outside The Golden Crown Hotel where they see Henchard occupied inside at a grand meal. They learn that Henchard is now the mayor of Casterbridge.
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- Thomas Hardy
- 1886
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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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Summary. Michael Henchard, the novel's protagonist, is a young, hot-tempered hay-trusser (someone who composes hay into bundles or bales, also called trusses). While intoxicated at a village fair, he impulsively sells his wife and infant child at auction for the sum of five guineas.
The Mayor of Casterbridge begins at a country fair in Wessex, a fictional English county. Drunk on rum, 21-year-old Michael Henchard feuds with his wife, Susan. In a drunken rage, he impulsively auctions her and their baby daughter for five guineas.
