'The Mayor of Casterbridge'
January 27th 2023 Yesterday, January 26th 2023, I finished reading Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ for the fifth or sixth time. I first read it for my English Literature ‘A’ level in 1969. It didn’t make a strong impression on me then, which I find odd, but I became a Hardy fanatic in my twenties, after leaving university, and read all of his major novels. Later on, I discovered his poe
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