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Thomas Hardy's almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the late nineteenth-century rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral signifigance all came together in an utterly fluent way in The Mayor of Casterbridge. A classicly shaped story about the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a man marked out for a complicated fate, The Mayor of Casterbridge, is an emblamatic product of Hardy's fictional maturity - vigorous, forceful, and unclouded by illusions.
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