Far from the madding crowd

Name: Far from the madding crowd
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780060956967

by Unknown Author

568 pages2000HarperLargePrint ClassicsISBN 9780060956967

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It's Time To Rediscover The Wonderful Books We All Cherish.First published in 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's first commerically successful novel. Set in the fictional Wessex countryside in the 1840s, it tells the story of the beautiful and capricious Bathsheba Everdene. Forced to choose between three suitors, Bathsheba makes a disastrous decision, which leads to both tragedy and true love.Far from the Madding Crowd remains one of the most enduring English novels of our time, and one of Hardy's most popular.

Publication Details

Publisher: HarperLargePrint Classics
Published: 2000
Pages: 568
ISBN: 9780060956967
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.