The Mayor of Casterbridge
Written by Thomas Hardy
Narrated by Peter Joyce
4.5/5
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I saw parts of the movie years ago and the ending. I remember being so utterly gripped with a mixture of devastation and sadness by the little I saw. I don’t know why it took me so long to read the book. It did not disappoint. There within is Mr. Henchard; the most complicated character I’ve ever come across. One who is able to glance fully at himself and repent yet fall on the knife of his own making over and over. Remove the ego and the human hedge and turn to the almighty, you want to scream at him. I did scream at him. But the story is a reminder that we are all so flawed but capable of looking up and letting God.