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Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)

Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)

Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
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Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2003

by Thomas Hardy

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  • Title Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Thomas Hardy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, London
  • Publication date 2003-04-29
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # OTF-S-9780141439655
  • ISBN 9780141439655 / 0141439653
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.75 x 5.08 x 0.87 in (19.69 x 12.90 x 2.21 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001266968
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 40

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Summary

Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with Hardy.

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From the publisher

The classic novel of passion and courtship in rural England

In Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. One of his first works set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.

This edition, based on Hardy's original 1874 manuscript, is the complete novel he never saw published, and restores its full candor and innovation. Rosemarie Morgan's introduction discusses the history of its publication, as well as the biblical and classical allusions that permeate the novel.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the author

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), whose writing immortalized the semi-fictional Wessex countryside and dramatized his sense of the inevitable tragedy of life, wrote fifteen novels, including The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). He is also renowned as one of the greatest poets of his era.

Rosemarie Morgan is a professor of English at Yale. Her many works on Thomas Hardy include Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy and Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy.

Shannon Russell is an assistant professor of English at John Cabot University in Rome.

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