Mayor of Casterbridge
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T09:58:14Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T09:58:14Z |
| dc.date.created | 1886 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3116 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3116 |
| dc.description.abstract | The mayor of Casterbridge / by Thomas Hardy. -- s.l. : s.n., s.d. -- 1st ed. noted: 1886 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.replaces | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2169 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English fiction -- 19th century |
| dc.title | Mayor of Casterbridge |
| dc.title.alternative | The life and death of the mayor of Casterbridge |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 3913683 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 1. One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot. They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just now. The man was of fine figure, swarthy, and stern in aspect; and he showed in profile a facial angle so slightly inclined as to be almost perpendicular. He wore a short jacket of brown corduroy, newer than the remainder of his suit, which was a fustian waistcoat with white horn buttons, breeches of the same, tanned leggings, and a straw hat overlaid with black glazed canvas. At his back he carried by a looped strap a rush basket, from which protruded at one end the crutch of a hay-knife, a wimble for hay-bonds being a . . .
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