num_pages: 464
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 andof Hardy's revised printed versions.
language: English
title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
titlecomplete: The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics)
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: 61198
places: Wessex, England, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Oxford University Press