Who was the first Mayor of Casterbridge in the Thomas Hardy novel?
The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886. The novel is considered to be one of the Hardy's masterpieces, although it has been criticised for incorporating too many incidents: a consequence of the author trying to include something in every weekly published instalment.
The Mayor of Casterbridge and he departs for good. Later, regretting her coldness, she and Farfrae set out to find him. They arrive too late, and learn that he has died alone. They also find his last written statement: his dying wish is to be forgotten. The novel is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge, based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset. The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels. In the opening sentence of the novel, Hardy writes that the events took place "before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span". The literary critic Dale Kramer saw it as