The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge
First edition title page
AuthorThomas Hardy
IllustratorRobert Barnes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublishedLondon[1]
PublisherSmith Elder & Co[1]
Publication date
1886[1]
TextThe Mayor of Casterbridge at Wikisource
First published in two volumes[1]

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. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886.

The novel is considered to be one of Hardy's masterpieces, although it has been criticised for incorporating too many incidents, a consequence of the author trying to include something in every weekly published instalment.

  1. ^ a b c d "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2018.

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