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	The Mayor of Casterbridge -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mayor of Casterbridge is a 1886 novel by (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) author (English novelist and poet (1840-1928)) Thomas Hardy.
		It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of (additional info and facts about Dorchester) Dorchester in (additional info and facts about Dorset) Dorset).
		Eighteen years later, Henchard, now a successful grain merchant and the Mayor of Casterbridge, is reunited with Susan, the wife he gave away at a country fair.
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		The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 1.
		Mayor?" Moreover, feeling none of the restraints of those who shared the feast, they could afford to add, "You rather ought to tell the story o' that, sir!" The interruption was sufficient to compel the Mayor to notice it.
		Thus Casterbridge was in most respects but the pole, focus, or nerve-knot of the surrounding country life; differing from the many manufacturing towns which are as foreign bodies set down, like boulders on a plain, in a green world with which they have nothing in common.
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	The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics) \| Thomas Hardy \| One of the best books I've...
		One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy's great novel published in 1886, is a classic of English Literature.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge is a superbly crafted tale of youthful folly and the futility of repentance.
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	The Mayor of Casterbridge
		Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is a heartbreaker of a tragedy.
		Mayor involves the rise and fall of a man as seen through his relationship with several people--his wife, his rival, his mistress, his daughter.
		And "Mayor's" plot has all kinds of convoluted developments--missed meetings and subterfuges and stolen letters and such--to achieve its undeniably moving conclusion, where the plot of "Jude" and "Tess" move with a kind of simple and natural inevitability.
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		The Mayor of Casterbridge is an extremely faithful representation of Thomas Hardy's novel: it presents the same characters, the same events, often even the exact dialogue from the novel, and it preserves the identical structure to the novel.
		Watching The Mayor of Casterbridge, I was all too aware that these were actors dressed up in period costumes, reciting their lines; the characters never came to life in their own right.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge is an overly long, excessively faithful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel; with its wooden acting across the board, coupled with a lack of any spark of creativity in editing or cinematography, it just falls flat.
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	Free Barron's BookNotes for The Mayor of Casterbridge - The Novel-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from ...
		The Mayor of Casterbridge is almost completely dominated by one character- Michael Henchard, the itinerant hay-trusser who becomes mayor of a Wessex town.
		As you read The Mayor of Casterbridge, you are likely to be impressed by Michael Henchard, but you may have trouble deciding whether you admire, loathe, pity, or condemn him.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge is written from the point of view of a third-person omniscient narrator.
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	The Mayor of Casterbridge - CHAPTER VIII
		Casterbridge had sentiment--Casterbridge had romance; but this stranger's sentiment was of differing quality.
		Or rather, perhaps, the difference was mainly superficial; he was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then.
		Stannidge managed to unstick herself from the framework of her chair in the bar and get as far as the door-post, which movement she accomplished by rolling herself round, as a cask is trundled on the chine by a drayman without losing much of its perpendicular.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/drama/TheMayorofCasterbridge/chap8.html (2296 words)

	The Mayor of Casterbridge - www.theage.com.au
		The Mayor of Casterbridge was published in 1886, not long after Hardy and his wife fled London to take up permanent residence in Dorset, and Hardy's sometimes acid riffs on country bumpkins are part of the joy of reading (or rereading) the book.
		At one point he describes the two styles of ladies' dress in Casterbridge as "the simple and the mistaken"; at another sternly comic moment he notes a young woman's dithering use of "dialect words", which are referred to as "those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel".
		The publication of The Mayor of Casterbridge marked the beginning of the greatest period in Hardy's 25-year career as a novelist.
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	World's Greatest Classic Books - The Mayor Of Casterbridge
		The Mayor of Casterbridge is the least typical of these novels because of its focus on town rather than rural life and because of the concentration on one character.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge (a middle novel) ends on a calm note, with Elizabeth-Jane marrying Farfrae and living a peaceful, if dull, life.
		Michael Henchard (of The Mayor of Casterbridge) deserts his family and can never quite escape the psychological guilt that plagues him throughout the rest of his life.
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	Review - Audio Book: The Mayor Of Casterbridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Novels such as The Return of the Native, a tale of free-spirited feminism, and the strong intellectually ambitious protagonist Jude Fawley in Jude the Obscure are as stimulating and entertaining as any of their contemporaries.
		Hardy's masterpiece is perhaps The Mayor of Casterbridge, a novel written when the author was forty-six and at the summit of his dramatic powers.
		The real accomplishment in The Mayor of Casterbridge is its structure, holding tight obedience to William Shakespeare's King Lear and all of the famed strain placed on the characters in that play.
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	Sensation Novel Elements in the Serialisation of Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
		In her chapter on The Mayor of Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy from Serial to Novel (1927), Marv Ellen Chase mentions that the novel finished its serial run on 15 May, 1886, in The Graphic, leaving "plenty of time for revision before book publication.
		Although in The Mayor of Casterbridge, as Rutland notes, Hardy did not make "the slightest concession" (198) to "public taste so far as to concoct a ‘happy ending'," the novelist did pander to that general taste for suspense, melodrama, and extremes of behaviour in both serial and volume forms.
		However, The Mayor of Casterbridge in volume form is distinguished from its Sensation Novel kin by its treatment of nature, its careful motivation of character, and its lack of what Manse terms "some demon in human shape" (360).
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	The Mayor of Casterbridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the most striking aspects of The Mayor of Casterbridge, for example, is the role of festival and the characters’ perceptions of, and reactions to, the festive.
		EXCLUSION AND REPRESSION; THE CHORIC RUMINATION OF HARDY’S CHARMING PUPPETS With The Mayor of Casterbridge, we arrive at a full statement of Hardy’s universe consciousness of the inadequacy of the old order is "modern consciousness" [it] is a study in the discovery of self-alienation.
		Or we learn that ‘in a sense [Henchard] is man’ and in his ‘passage towards self-awareness we can read the sufferings of an entire species in its struggle to master a destiny which demands the subjection of powerful instinctive forces’.
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	Amazon.com: The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the course of the rest of the novel, we witness the fall of the now Mayor of Casterbridge, brought about by his own character flaws and the interventions of fate.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy is a fictional novel teaching many life learned lessons.
		In The Mayor of Casterbridge the truth of life is displayed.
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	Classical Tragedy and THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
		In THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE Thomas Hardy tells the story of a lowly hay-trusser who rises to become mayor of a rural English town.
		When Henchard is found is Casterbridge, the reader is told that he is the owner of the largest grain business around.
		The journey was from the fair where he sold his wife to Casterbridge, and the great deed was founding a successful business and becoming mayor.
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	Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
		"The Mayor of Casterbridge features a dominant protagonist, complex human relationships, and an elaborate plot worked out against a background of social and economic changes taking place in the English countryside at a critical historical juncture...the mid to late nineteenth century, when mechanized agriculture methods were introduced."
		Most literature is located in the P section, so you may wish to browse in the stacks in that general area.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge is considered one of the the five greater novels by Hardy.
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	The Mayor of Casterbridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mayor of Casterbridge was written in 1884 and 1885, serialized in the Graphic from 2 January to 15 May 1886, and then published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1886.
		As he did for most of the novels, Hardy made a final revision for Macmillan's 1912 Wessex Edition of the novels.
		The Mythic Hero and The Mayor of Casterbridge
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	ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre \| The Archive \| The Mayor of Casterbridge
		Eighteen years later he is the Mayor of Casterbridge--eminent, respected, rich and feared.
		It is Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, which he wrote about halfway through the quarter century that he devoted entirely to novels.
		Now, The Mayor of Casterbridge was shot, of course, in Dorset, which is where all his novels are placed, and even today much of Dorset is undefiled from 1830s and 40s.
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	Free Barron's BookNotes for The Mayor of Casterbridge - A Step Beyond-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from ...
		The fact that The Mayor of Casterbridge was originally published as a magazine serial accounts for the strong emphasis on plot in the novel, the continual introduction of new characters and the reappearance of old ones, and the episodic nature of the plot.
		Although Casterbridge is the major urban center of Wessex, it is clearly not a modern city.
		From the point of view of the different characters in Casterbridge, the skimmity-ride is a way to equalize the class structure, as it allows the lower classes to bring down those in power.
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		Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 near Dorchester, England and published The Mayor of Casterbridge in 1886.
		The manner in which the public expressed themselves before these acts is demonstrated grandly by Hardy’s characterization of the pubs and taverns in and around Casterbridge.
		Mixen-Lane, for example, is a comprehensive compilation of country folk at their extreme, separated by makeshift bridges from the rest of society.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: The Mayor of Casterbridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Featuring a stunning Introduction by popular author of The Ice Storm and Demonology Rick Moody, this special edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge is a tie-in to the A&E Television Network adaptation of Thomas Hardy's critically acclaimed novel.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with an act of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today.
		The Mayor of Casterbrdige by Thomas Hardy is an intricatly created tragedy full of unexpected surprises, short comings, and demises and published full of ideals far ahead of the times.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: The Mayor of Casterbridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At first I was forced to read "The Mayor of Casterbridge" in school more than 12 years ago.
		Though he seems to have learned his lesson, we are only on chapter two and his story is just beginning as his wife and child return and his friendship with a trusted friend and critical advisor becomes a bitter rivalry.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge relies on coincidence, melodrama, and, as the afterword in my edition puts it, "the constant exploitation of chance happenings to determine situation and hence the fate of his characters." I chose this Hardy novel because it was supposed to be character-centered.
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	Full text and plot summary of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
		One of the best known and most critically acclaimed of Hardy’s "Novels of Character and Environment" and indeed of all his novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the story of Michel Henchard.
		Henchard is a country labourer who in the first chapters of the book gets drunk while he and his wife are travelling and stopping at a fair and promptly sells both her and his child to a sailor calle Newson.
		Time passes in which Henchard manages to accumulate wealth and respect, even becoming mayor of the town of Casterbridge.
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	The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		The Mayor of Casterbridge, originally published in 1886, is Thomas Hardy's compelling exploration of Michael Henchard's attempts to atone for having sold his wife and daughter at a village fair.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge is a classic melodrama...albeit a very good one.
		I have just read 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' and i found it a great book.
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		Free eBook of The Mayor of Casterbridge at Project Gutenberg
		Thomas Hardy novels Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books.
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	MTV.com - Movies - The Mayor of Casterbridge
		Produced for the BBC in 2001, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the second British miniseries version of Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel (the first was filmed in 1978).
		About to make his reformation complete by wedding attractive young Lucetta (Polly Walker), Henchard is aghast to discover that his wife and now-grown daughter (played as an adult by Jodhi May), have returned home.
		The Mayor of Casterbridge made its U.S. debut August 17, 2003, on the A&E cable channel.
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	Alan Bates Television Archive: "The Mayor of Casterbridge"
		They even learned to brew the drink on which Michael Henchard, the tragic hero of The Mayor of Casterbridge, got drunk.
		People who have heard much of, or survived, Hiroshima may well be impatient with novels of easy reassurance about the benevolence of nature or the certainty of human happiness.
		"The Mayor of Casterbridge was his tenth novel, written in his middle forties.
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	The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge And Standard Deviants: Accounting Parts 1&2 (VHS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge And Standard Deviants: Accounting Parts 1and2 (VHS)
		The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge
		Hardy`s novel begins with the famous scene in which Michael Henchard, a young farmer, gets drunk at a village fair and sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor for five guineas.
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	THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
		He vows temperance, tries in vain to find his wife, applies himself to such an extent that he becomes a substantial businessman and Mayor of Casterbridge.
		Wood-engraving by Peter Reddick from Thomas Hardy, Mayor of Casterbridge, 1968
		The Wessex Actors Company production of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" tours between late March and early May 2005.
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