num_pages: 436
description: Includes the full text of The Novel; Background, including the setting with maps of the Wessex of the Novels of Hardy and Poems, Key to Place Names , map of Casterbridge and Durnover; a section on the composition, publication, and reception of the novel; a section on literary criticism including contemporary critical reception and critical essys about the novel by various Hardy literary experts. Set in Wessex, England, shortly before 1830. A story of retribution, one of the great novels of the English language.
language: English
title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
titlecomplete: The Mayor of Casterbridge
characters: Susan Henchard, Richard Newson, Donald Farfrae, Michael Henchard, Elizabeth-Jane Newson, Lucetta Templeman
genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 61197
places: Dorset, England, Wessex, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Macmillan London Ltd