Farfrae succeeds Michael Henchard in this office, the title of an 1886 novel by Hardy
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certain shyness of revealing his conduct prevented Michael Henchard from... [DOC] [TLE] Hardy, Thomas, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Robert C. Walton [PAR] (1874), The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), ... His 
novels, though written in the serial format typical of the Victorian era, also ...