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Far from the Madding Crowd: A Classic Victorian Novel of Love, Pride, and Rural England
Paperback
RomanceClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617201431
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 21 2011
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd is one of the great English novels of rural life, romantic choice, and moral consequence. Set in Hardy's fictional Wessex, the novel follows Bathsheba Everdene, an independent and strong-willed young woman who inherits a farm and must navigate both the demands of landownership and the attentions of three very different men: the steady shepherd Gabriel Oak, the prosperous farmer William Boldwood, and the reckless Sergeant Troy.
First published in 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd established Hardy as a major Victorian novelist. The book combines pastoral beauty with emotional tension, presenting country life not as simple idyll but as a world of work, weather, social expectation, pride, desire, and irreversible mistake. Bathsheba remains one of Hardy's most memorable heroines: intelligent, impulsive, self-possessed, and constrained by the narrow expectations placed upon women in nineteenth-century England.
A landmark of Victorian fiction, Far from the Madding Crowd is essential reading for students and admirers of classic English literature, nineteenth-century fiction, rural novels, literary romance, and Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels. Its enduring power lies in Hardy's ability to join landscape, character, and fate into a story that is both intimately human and unmistakably literary.
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