num_pages: 318
description: D H Lawrence remarked that Hardy's best novels were about 'the struggle into love and the struggle with love', and THE MAJOR OF CASTLEBRIDGE is no exception. One of the long series of Wessex tales include FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, it is the story of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard and the women with whom he searches for happiness in the harsh world of the nineteenth-century rural England
language: English
title: The Mayor Of Casterbridge
titlecomplete: The Mayor Of Casterbridge
characters: Elizabeth-Jane Newson, Donald Farfrae, Susan Henchard, Richard Newson, Michael Henchard, Lucetta Templeman
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 61193
places: Wessex, England, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Everyman