The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Publishing Details
The Mayor of Casterbridge
By (Author) Thomas Hardy
Introduction and notes by Michael Irwin
Series edited by Dr Keith Carabine
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
5th April 1994
5th April 1994
New edition
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.8
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm
182g
Description
None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the author's most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description. AUTHOR: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than fifty years, and he is now considered both a major novelist and poet. His tales of Wessex, a fictional amalgamation of various south-west counties, have a lasting appeal, and many, such as 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' and 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' have become popular television adaptations.
