The Mayor Of Casterbridge

Nov 8, 2025 7:29 AM

Author:Thomas Hardy

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

Reviews

Confirms her genius for improvisation

—— Observer

Witty, entertaining and intelligent

—— Times Literary Supplement

Fay Weldon's novels are sharp as needles. This latest has such a fine point it almost draws blood

—— Daily Mail

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