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The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character by Thomas Hardy (1886) https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/the-mayor-of-casterbr
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character by Thomas Hardy (1886)
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/the-mayor-of-casterbridge https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/the-mayor-of-...
I notice from that link it was on a top 100 Great British novels list.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoBlech. I was afflicted with this in literature class. Would not recommend, even to someone who didn't have to read it. Hardy is better at torturing his characters than he is at giving them much of a personality. (Or so it seemed to me at the time; I haven't re-read it...)