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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Thomas Hardy's novel follows Michael Henchard, a man whose rash act in his youth shapes his rise and fall as a prominent figure in a rural English town. Readers drawn to Victorian literature and studies of character and fate will find it rewarding.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
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