#the mayor of casterbridge

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The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy This is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.

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Ciarán Hinds as Michael Henchard in The Mayor Of Casterbridge // the look // © A&E

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Jodhi May in The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)

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Read of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (1886) (381pgs)

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Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'

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Milla Jovovich in The Claim (2000).

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Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.

Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Currently reading: The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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thomas hardy got me googling too many words i don't know

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Casterbridge announced old Rome in every street, alley, and precinct. It looked Roman, bespoke the art of Rome, concealed dead men of Rome. It was impossible to dig more than a foot or two deep about the town fields and gardens without coming upon some tall soldier or other of the Empire, who had lain there in his silent unobtrusive rest for a space of fifteen hundred years. He was mostly found lying on his side, in an oval scoop in the chalk, like a chicken in its shell; his knees drawn up to his chest; sometimes with the remains of his spear against his arm; a fibula or brooch of bronze on his breast or forehead; an urn at his knees, a jar at his throat, a bottle at his mouth; and mystified conjecture pouring down upon him from the eyes of Casterbridge street boys and men, who had turned a moment to gaze at the familiar spectacle as they passed by.

Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

Coin of Constantine, 4thC, British Museum

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[Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge.]

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How many of the books mentioned in Robin McKinley's A Knot in the Grain have you read?

The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

*reblog for science*

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İngiliz bir âdet olan zevce satışı,

17. yüzyılın sonlarında, boşanmak ancak zengin insanlar için uygulanılabilir olduğu zamanlarda karşılıklı bir anlaşmayla tatminkâr olmayan evlilikleri bitirme yöntemiydi. Kişi, karısının boynuna, koluna ya da beline yular taktıktan sonra halka açık bir yerde en yüksek fiyatı verene satardı. Bu adet Thomas Hardy'nin "The Mayor of Casterbridge" adlı romanının altyapısını oluşturur. Hikâyenin başında ana karakter karısını satar, sonra yaptığı bu iş sonucu hayatı boyunca vicdan azabı çeker ve bu azap onu mahveder.

Gerçi bu âdetin kanunda bir yeri yoktu ve genelde dava ile sonuçlanırdı, özellikle 1850'lerden sonraki dönemlerde. Görevlilerin davranışları kaçamaklıydı. 1800'lerin başında bir sulh hakimi, zevce satışlarına kanûnen engel olmaya hakkı olmadığına inanıyordu. Yerel polis memurları arasında insanları zevcelerini satması için zorlayanlar bile vardı.

Zevce satışı çeşitli şekillerde 20. yüzyılın başlarına kadar devam etti. Hukukçu ve Tarihçi James Bryce'ın 1901'de yazdığına göre, onun zamanında da hala zevce satışları bazen görülüyordu. 1913'te bir kadın Leeds polis mahkemesine kendisinin kocası tarafından bir iş arkadaşına 1£'ya satıldığını gösteren bir delil teslim etmiştir, ki bu da İngiltere'de rapor edilmiş en son zevce satışıdır.

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Hardy’s Casterbridge is still like an alternative world… a bit like Ambridge

IN OUR series, household names revisit their favourite childhood holiday destinations. This week, Archers star ANDREW WINCOTT returns to Hardy country.

Written for The Scottish Mail Sunday (19 May, 2024)

HISTORIC Dorchester has long been just a memory for me.

I first visited it in my teens while studying Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor Of Casterbridge for my A-levels. And one of my first professional roles as an actor in the 1980s was as Alec in Hardy’s Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, for a West Country tour that took in Dorchester’s Corn Exchange, still a vibrant arts centre today.

Now, decades later, I got the chance to return to Dorset’s sedate county town with Spi, an old university friend and fellow Hardy fan from my Oxford days.

After checking into the welcoming Duchess Of Cornwall Inn, we hit the Hardy trail. Our first step was Maumbury Rings, the atmospheric former Neolithic/ Roman amphitheatre – the scene of a clandestine meeting in The Mayor Of Casterbridge between Henchard and the wife he’d sold 20 years earlier.

Thankfully it’s no longer used for public executions (even the most genteel towns can have a dark past). Just down the high street stands the landmark King’s Arms Hotel. Hardy wrote The Mayor Of Casterbridge at a desk in the bay window of the Casterbridge Room there – and standing in the great man’s footsteps, I couldn’t help feeling a moment of frisson.

Andrew, in his youth

Our next stop was Max Gate, the Grade I listed house that Hardy designed following his early literary success and where he lived until his death in 1928. It’s also where Hardy wrote Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, perhaps his most famous novel. Among the many celebrity visitors who called on him there was Lawrence of Arabia.

The town’s Dorset Museum also boasts a Hardy connection – the great man’s study has been reconstructed there, and you can even admire some of his paintings.

But Dorchester isn’t just for Hardy fans.

In recent years the town has become a bit of a gastro-hub for foodies – the Food And Arts Festival takes place in August – as I discovered.

I lunched on a delicious pesto porchetta at the Merchant restaurant, and my steak dinner at The King’s Arms was cooked to perfection. I can also recommend Drgnfly, which specialises in pan-Asian fare – its sesame crusted tuna and crispy prawn dumplings served with garlic and chilli sauce certainly hit the spot.

So how did Dorchester compare to the town of my youth?

Hardy’s Casterbridge is still as vivid to me now as when I first walked its streets. An alternative world perhaps – a bit like Borsetshire’s Ambridge – but one well worth visiting whether or not you’re a Hardy fan.

In the words of Daniel Defoe, which you can see above the entrance to the town’s Corn Exchange: ‘A man might as well... spend his time... in Dorchester as in any other town in England.’

● B&B doubles at The Duchess Of Cornwall Inn from £90 a night (duchessofcornwall.co.uk). London Waterloo to Dorchester South returns from £34.60 (southwesternrailway.com). Andrew Wincott plays Adam Macy in The Archers, Radio 4.

Source: The Scottish Mail Sunday

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books i remember reading in english class in hs

freshman year

romeo and juliet

much ado about nothing

the great gatsby

great expectations

the natural

haroun and the sea of stories

to kill a mockingbird

also everyone had to pick An Author from a list and read four of their novels, i got Kurt Vonnegut so i read uhhh player piano, cat's cradle, slaughterhouse 5, and mother night

sophomore year

devil in the white city

in cold blood

narrative of the life of frederick douglass

the crucible

catcher in the rye

call of the wild

of mice and men

junior year

the mayor of casterbridge

canterbury tales

hamlet

mcbeth

1984

animal farm

paradise lost

frankenstein

3 plays by oscar wilde (salome, importance of being ernest, lady windermere's fan)

picture of dorian grey

beowulf

marlowe's dr faustus

children of men

senior year

the things they carried

richard III

the namesake

anthem

kinda a weird mixed bag all around tbh. also obviously only counting novels and major plays here. rip to all poems/essays/short stories 😔

thank you!!