Far from the Madding Crowd, 9780553213317
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“It is among such communities as these that happiness will find her last refuge on earth..”. Against this backdrop Hardy tells a vivid story of life in rural Wessex which centres on the independent and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene. She decides to manage the farm she has inherited and finds herself i…

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    480 pages

  • Release Date

    31 January 1998

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Summary

Graced with the splendid illustrations executed by Helen Paterson for the first edition of the novel, this special Collector’s Edition of Far from the Madding Crowd also features handwritten letters and drawings by Hardy, as well as rare and intimate portraits of the author and his first wife, Emma. Here, too, readers are granted a fascinating and touching glimpse of how two great imaginative writers interact with one another: This edition reproduces the handwritten pages from Virginia Woolf’…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780553213317
ISBN-10:0553213318
Series:New York Public Library collector's edition
Author:Thomas Defendant Hardy
Publisher:Bantam Classics
Imprint:Bantam USA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:31 January 1998
Weight:263g
Dimensions:20mm x 107mm x 175mm
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Critics Review

“Far from the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardy’s great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered.”-Margaret Drabble

About The Author

Thomas Defendant Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840 1928), enduring author of the twentieth century, wrote the classics Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and many other works.

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