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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

About 620 pages (186,029 words) in 19 products

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The Mayor of Casterbridge eBook
101,728 words, approx. 339 pages
The complete online text of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.


Author Biography

Name: Thomas Hardy
Birth Date: June 2, 1840
Death Date: January 11, 1928
Place of Birth: Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, author, novelist, poet, dramatist

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Biography of Thomas Hardy
1424 words, approx. 4.7 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 beings suffer in their struggle for life. Thomas Hardy pres...
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Biography of Thomas Hardy
12938 words, approx. 43.1 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 major late-Victorian novelist and a major twentieth-c...
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Biography of Thomas Hardy
12533 words, approx. 41.8 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 major late-Victorian novelist and a major twentieth-c...
 


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The Mayor of Casterbridge Information
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of...


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Novel
Hardy's Transatlantic Wessex: Constructing the Local in The Mayor of Casterbridge
10/01/2005: 9,581 words, approx. 32 pages
I want to develop the suggestion that cultural historians could take the Atlantic as one single, complex unit of analysis in their discussions of the modern world and use it to produce an explicitly transnational and intercultural perspective. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic...
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Monarch Notes
Works of Thomas Hardy: The Mayor Of Casterbridge: Chapters 1 - 6
01/01/1963: 4,325 words, approx. 14 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Mayor Of Casterbridge: Chapters 1 - 6 Chapter I It is a warm, pleasant evening in the late summer of the year 1826. A young man and his wife, dusty from long travel, are walking along a country road toward...
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The New York Observer
Distilled in Brooklyn\'d1 A Fine Historical Novel
4/16/2006: 1,315 words, approx. 4 pages
We treasure and enjoy some novelists because they offer us a world, and let us feel we can enter it like original inhabitants. It’s a going home, even if we’ve never been there before. I’ve heard of Americans so intoxicated by the novels of Thomas...
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The New York Observer
Distilled in Brooklyn- A Fine Historical Novel
4/16/2006: 1,313 words, approx. 4 pages
We treasure and enjoy some novelists because they offer us a world, and let us feel we can enter it like original inhabitants. It’s a going home, even if we’ve never been there before. I’ve heard of Americans so intoxicated by the novels of Thomas...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
Chapter One of The Mayor of Casterbridge
2,202 words, approx. 7 pages
An analysis of the first chapter of Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge and that chapter's significance, taking historical and social factors into account.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Mayor of Casterbridge: An Analysis of the Use of Coincidences
1,970 words, approx. 7 pages
In Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, readers will experience something very familiar to a soap opera; drama, breakups, and a never-ending series of coincidences. Although Hardy's excessive use of coincidences detract from the story, those coincidences help to advance the plot, making this element of literature an inevitable part of any complex story.
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Essay Grade: 90%
The Mayor of Casterbridge
1,466 words, approx. 5 pages
Essay discusses the importance of fate in "The Mayor of Casterbridge."
 


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