Far From the Madding Crowd, 9780451531827
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Love, pride, and fate entwine on a Dorset farm.

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    432 pages

  • Release Date

    6 June 2011

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Summary

A Dance with Destiny: Love and Fate in Weatherbury

Gabriel Oaks watches as Bathsheba Everdene, the spirited mistress of Weatherbury Farm, succumbs to ill-considered choices and the whims of her heart. Little does she know, destiny holds the key to their intertwined future and eventual union.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780451531827
ISBN-10:0451531825
Series:Signet Classics (Hardcover)
Author:Thomas Hardy, Suzanne Keen, Regina Barreca
Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:Signet
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:6 June 2011
Weight:232g
Dimensions:172mm x 106mm x 28mm
About The Author

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth-Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels-Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure-he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet’s Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy.

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