- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Wessex (england), fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization
<p>Like many of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy">Hardy’s</a> novels, <i>The Mayor of Casterbridge</i> is set in the fictional county of Wessex in the mid 1800s.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- First published
- 1800
- Pages
- 363
- Publisher
- Bibliotech Press, Random House Audio, ReadHowYouWant.com
- Editions
- 676
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, guj, German
- ISBN
- 9798798987740
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- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Wessex (england), fiction
- Fathers and daughters, fiction
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Fiction, psychological
- Psychological fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Men -- England -- Fiction
- Wessex (England) -- Fiction
- Runaway husbands -- Fiction
- Atonement -- Fiction
- Mayors -- Fiction
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored trag
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