The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, “The Life and Death of a Man of Character”. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy’s Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England.
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