ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Mayor of Casterbridge, novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1886, first serially (in the periodical The Graphic) and later that year in book form. The fictional city of Casterbridge provides a picture of Dorchester in the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled “The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It 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, all set in a fictional rural England.

Detailed explanation-4: -When Henchard’s successor as mayor dies suddenly, Farfrae becomes mayor. Henchard’s ruin is almost completed when the “furmity woman” is arrested as a vagrant in Casterbridge and reveals the transaction two decades earlier when Henchard sold his wife.

Detailed explanation-5: -Susan explains that they are there to look for a long-lost relative by the name of Henchard.