The hustle and bustle of a fair taking place in town attracted the pair. They walked side by side in such a way as to suggest afar the confidential chat of people full of reciprocity, but on closer view it could be discerned that the man was reading or pretending to read” p1 This is how the story starts, “A young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching a village… what was really peculiar, however, in this couple’s progress, and would have attracted the attention of any casual observer otherwise disposed to overlook them, was the perfect silence they preserved.
Hardy didn’t need a cliffhanger for this story, however, because it started with a man auctioning off his wife and baby daughter. His book The Mayor of Casterbridge was published in 1886, and is set in a fictional part of rural England called Wessex. In one serialized novel, Hardy literally ended a chapter with a main character hanging off a cliff.
In fact, he is believed to be the source of the term “cliffhanger”.
The Mayor of Casterbridge was written by the British author Thomas Hardy, who is described as “the greatest tragic writer among English novelists”. A Book Review on The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, published in 1886.
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