Publisher's Synopsis
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published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886.THOMAS HARDY OTHERS WORK INCLUDEThe Poor Man and the Lady (1867, unpublished and lost)Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872)Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)The Return of the Native (1878)The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886)The Woodlanders (1887)Wessex Tales (1888, a collection of short stories)Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891)Life's Little Ironies (1894, a collection of short stories)Jude the Obscure (1895)
