Thomas Hardy’s almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of the rural landscape, and his power to invest that landscape with moral significance all came together in an utterly fluent way in The Mayor of Casterbridge . A classically shaped story about the rise and fall of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard in the harsh world of nineteenth-century rural England, The Mayor of Casterbridge is an emblematic product of Hardy’s maturity–vigorous, forceful, and unclouded by illusions.

Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist. He is spanning two centuries of writers, writing in the early and mid-fiction based, inherit and carry forward the tradition of Victorian literature; poetry in his later years for its outstanding pioneering 20th century British literature. [1]

Hardy's life were published nearly 20 novels, most notably when pushed, "Tess," "Jude the Obscure" (Jude the Obscure), "Return of the Native" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge . "Verse 8 sets, a total of 918, in addition, there are a lot of "Wessex Story" is the general name of the short story and epic drama "Kings." Representative works include "Wessex poems", "early and late lyrics", "Tess."