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The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy · first published 1886

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.

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Original language:
English
Year page:
1886

Screen Adaptations

  1. 1921 · Film
  2. 1978 · TV Series
  3. 2000 · Film
  4. 2003 · TV Film

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