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Far
from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels.
It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit
of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene,
whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after'. And lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with '...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba.
The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods.
whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after'. And lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with '...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba.
The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods.
About The Author:
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was
an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George
Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism,
especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence.
Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy
focused more on a declining rural society.
Novels of character and environment
The Poor Man and the Lady (1867,
unpublished and lost)
Under the Greenwood Tree: A
Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872)
Far from the Madding Crowd
(1874)
The Return of the Native
(1878)
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The
Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886)
The Woodlanders (1887)
Wessex Tales (1888, a
collection of short stories)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A
Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891)
Life's Little Ironies (1894, a
collection of short stories)
Jude the Obscure (1895)
Romances and fantasies
A Pair of Blue Eyes: A Novel
(1873)
The Trumpet-Major (1880)
Two on a Tower: A Romance
(1882)
A Group of Noble Dames (1891,
a collection of short stories)
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of
a Temperament (1897) Novels of ingenuity
Desperate Remedies: A Novel
(1871)
The Hand of Ethelberta: A
Comedy in Chapters (1876)
A Laodicean: A Story of To-day
(1881)
Product Details
- Series: Wadsworth Collection
- Paperback: 362 pages
- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (August 5, 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1853260673
- ISBN-13: 978-1853260674
- Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
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