Far from the Madding Crowd
$16.35
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2003
Summary
A Woman’s Worth: Love and Fate in Hardy’s Wessex
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene arrives in Weatherbury to manage the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence attracts three suitors: the composed gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the seductive Sergeant Troy, and the steadfast shepherd Gabriel Oak.
Each man, in his unique way, challenges her decisions and complicates her life, setting in motion a chain of events that lead to tragedy, threatening the stability of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439655 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141439653 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Thomas Hardy, Shannon Russell, Rosemarie Morgan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 329g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 23mm |
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“F ar 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
“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 Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.
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