id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3209 The Mayor of Casterbridge - Wikipedia .html text/html 2487 275 77 The Mayor of Casterbridge First edition title page 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. At a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge: Tragedy or Social History?. Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3209.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3209.txt