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Publisher: Penguin
Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780141439655
Year: 2003
Format: Paperback
Classics, Fiction
Far from the Madding Crowd
by
Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd by
Thomas Hardy
Summary
Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Its heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, takes up her position as a farmer on a large estate, where her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and when tragedy ensues, the stability of the whole community is threatened.