The Mayor of Casterbridge

Includes the full text of The Novel; Background, including the setting with maps of the Wessex of the Novels of Hardy and Poems, Key to Place Names , map of Casterbridge and Durnover; a section on the composition, publication, and reception of the novel; a section on literary criticism including contemporary critical reception and critical essys about the novel by various Hardy literary experts. Set in Wessex, England, shortly before 1830. A story of retribution, one of the great novels of the English language.