num_pages: 403
description: Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth in the historical town of Dorchester, and it is to these familiar surroundings that he turns for the setting of this novel. This edition is the first critically established text of The Mayor of Casterbridge, based on a detailed study of the manuscript and of Hardy's revised printed versions.
language: English
title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
titlecomplete: The Mayor of Casterbridge (The World's Classics)
characters: Lucetta Templeman, Donald Farfrae, Richard Newson, Michael Henchard, Elizabeth-Jane Newson, Susan Henchard
genres: Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 61198
places: United Kingdom, Dorset, England, Wessex, England
publisher: Oxford University Press