The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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The Mayor of Casterbridge Summary

The Mayor of Casterbridge, originally entitled The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: A Story of a Man of Character, was first published serially in a London periodical in 1886. The first publication in book form was later that year. Thomas Hardy was an established author at the time and had published nine previous novels (a first, unpublished novel has been lost), but The Mayor of Casterbridge is considered his first masterpiece...

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

131,329 words, approx. 438 pages

THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE by Thomas Hardy 1. One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were appro... Read more

Thomas Hardy Biographies (5)

Thomas Hardy

1,399 words, approx. 5 pages

The works of the English novelist, poet, and dramatist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) unite the Victorian and modern eras. They reveal him to be a kind and gentle man, terribly aware of the pain human being... Read more

Thomas Hardy

12,458 words, approx. 42 pages

In the later years of his long life, Thomas Hardy was probably the most famous English man of letters of his time, his reputation extending throughout the world. He is now generally regarded as both a... Read more

Thomas Hardy

9,282 words, approx. 31 pages

One of Hardy's unusual claims to distinction as a poet is that his first book of verse was not published until he was fifty-eight and had already achieved fame as a novelist. In the next thirty years,... Read more

Thomas Hardy

10,264 words, approx. 35 pages

A writer who expressed himself prolifically and successfully in both prose and verse, Thomas Hardy hoped to be remembered for his poetry. Toward the end of his life he remarked that his sole literary ... Read more

Thomas Hardy

12,944 words, approx. 44 pages

Biography EssayIn the later years of his long life, Thomas Hardy was probably the most famous English man of letters of his time, his reputation extending throughout the world. He is now generally reg... Read more

Essays & Analysis (11)

The Mayor of Casterbridge

1,491 words, approx. 5 pages

The importance of fate in The Mayor of Casterbridge is more prominent in the character of Michael Henchard and less so in Donald Farfrae. Perhaps the most prominent part in the novel when the importa... Read more

A Character Profile of Michael Henchard

690 words, approx. 3 pages

At the beginning of the novel, we are introduced to our protagonist Michael Henchard as a 21-year old hay-trusser who holds little stature within the community. He does not act in a respectable manne... Read more

Complex Destiny in The Mayor of Casterbridge

559 words, approx. 2 pages

The Mayor of Casterbridge was a masterpiece of Thomas Hardy's novels. Things went crisscross in the story, and that influenced me a lot. Young Henchard was rash and stubborn. He made a very big mista... Read more

Michael Henchard, a Review

598 words, approx. 2 pages

This novel written by Thomas Hardy is about a man called Michael Henchard who sold his wife and daughter for 5 guineas unconsciously at a market and had them back unexpectedly 18 years later when he w... Read more

Character Is Destiny

1,461 words, approx. 5 pages

Character is destiny. Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (c. 540-c. 475 B.C.) This famous quote has birthed many ideas and philosophies about life and our final destination. Similarly, in Thomas Hardy's T... Read more

Change in Casterbridge

988 words, approx. 4 pages

The Mayer of Casterbridge, a novel by Thomas Hardy, was written in the late nineteenth century. An alternate title for the work is "The Life and Death of a Man of Character." There are many ideas th... Read more

Biblical Allusions in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge

970 words, approx. 4 pages

The Mayor of Casterbridge In Thomas Hardy's time, he and the majority of the public prized biblical morals, values, and lessons. In The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy made use of the Biblical story o... Read more

Michael Henchard: A Sympathetic Character

743 words, approx. 3 pages

The mayor of Casterbridge was once very popular, that he was admired by all people in the town. "He's the powerfullest member of the town council, and a quite a principal man in the country round besi... Read more

Chapter One of The Mayor of Casterbridge

2,248 words, approx. 8 pages

In Thomas Hardy's first chapter of `The Mayor of Casterbridge', we are introduced to the main themes that will be developed later on. In the first Chapter we meet the main characters Michael and his w... Read more

The Mayor of Casterbridge: An Analysis of the Use of Coincidences

2,029 words, approx. 7 pages

Webster's dictionary defines coincidences as "the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection." In this modern day and age, society is led to b... Read more

Chapter 17 of "Mayor of Casterbridge"

866 words, approx. 3 pages

Chapter 17 of Thomas Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge" continues to develop an understanding of how Henchard's feelings overwhelms the way he behaves and the action he takes. The chapter begins wher... Read more

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