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Far from the Madding Crowd: A Classic Victorian Novel of Love, Pride, and Rural England

Far from the Madding Crowd: A Classic Victorian Novel of Love, Pride, and Rural England


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Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd is one of the great English novels of rural life, romantic choice, and moral consequence. Set in Hardy's fictional Wessex, the novel follows Bathsheba Everdene, an independent and strong-willed young woman who inherits a farm and must navigate both the demands of landownership and the attentions of three very different men: the steady shepherd Gabriel Oak, the prosperous farmer William Boldwood, and the reckless Sergeant Troy.

First published in 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd established Hardy as a major Victorian novelist. The book combines pastoral beauty with emotional tension, presenting country life not as simple idyll but as a world of work, weather, social expectation, pride, desire, and irreversible mistake. Bathsheba remains one of Hardy's most memorable heroines: intelligent, impulsive, self-possessed, and constrained by the narrow expectations placed upon women in nineteenth-century England.

A landmark of Victorian fiction, Far from the Madding Crowd is essential reading for students and admirers of classic English literature, nineteenth-century fiction, rural novels, literary romance, and Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels. Its enduring power lies in Hardy's ability to join landscape, character, and fate into a story that is both intimately human and unmistakably literary.



About the Author :
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose work stands among the central achievements of Victorian and early modern English literature. Born in Dorset, Hardy drew deeply on the landscape, speech, customs, and social pressures of rural southwest England, transforming the region into his fictional Wessex. His novels are known for their close attention to class, courtship, work, marriage, social reputation, and the conflict between individual desire and the forces of circumstance.Hardy's major novels include Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. Although he later turned primarily to poetry, his fiction remains central to the study of nineteenth-century English novels, Victorian literature, rural realism, literary romance, and the development of modern tragic fiction. Far from the Madding Crowd, first published in 1874, was the novel that brought Hardy broad recognition and remains one of his most widely read and admired works.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781617201431
  • Publisher: Smk Books
  • Publisher Imprint: SMK Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 354
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 566 gr
  • ISBN-10: 161720143X
  • Publisher Date: 21 Apr 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Classic Victorian Novel of Love, Pride, and Rural England
  • Width: 152 mm


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