Far from the Madding Crowd (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9791041801329)

Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and was completed in 1874. It was originally serialized in Cornhill Magazine and was quickly published in a successful single volume. Hardy described Wessex as "a merely realistic dream country" and so it is in Far from the Madding Crowd, where an idyllic view of the countryside is interrupted by the bitter reality of farming life. The novel is the first that Hardy sets in fictional Wessex; he quickly realised that setting novels there could be a money-earner that would subsidise his poetry-writing ambitions. Gabriel Oak, the faithful man and aspiring farmer; Bathsheba Everdene, the young and independent lady farmer; William Boldwood, the lonely neighbour; and Sergeant Troy, the dashing military man, all lead intertwined lives which are full of love and loss.

Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN-10: 1041801327
ISBN-13: 9791041801329
Publisher: Culturea
Language: English
Published: 05/23/2023
Pages: 518
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.15d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.7
Point Value: 25
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 12782 / Far from the Madding Crowd