Far from the Madding Crowd

By Hardy, Thomas

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Title:	Far from the Madding Crowd
Author:	Hardy, Thomas
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Romance, Action & Adventure
Collections:	Authors Community
Historic Publication Date:	BookRix Community
Publisher:	1874


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Description: Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors; the seemingly commonplace man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier Francis Troy, and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. Her choice, and the tragedy it provokes, lie at the centre of Hardy's ambivalent story