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Fiction · 1886 · English

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

About this book

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy explores psychological fiction, fathers and daughters — fiction, men — england — fiction.

From the opening pages: “One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot. They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just…”

Author
Thomas Hardy
First published
1886
Category
Fiction
Language
English

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