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Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

A farmer’s choices reshape life in Weatherbury

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A farmer’s choices reshape life in Weatherbury

Bathsheba Everdene arrives in rural Weatherbury to manage a large farm, where her independence and presence draw three suitors with sharply different positions in her life: a gentleman-farmer, a soldier, and a shepherd. Their competing attachments place courtship alongside questions of judgment, responsibility, and the effects of private decisions on a wider community. Set in Hardy’s semi-fictional Wessex, the novel also gives sustained attention to rural work and landscape. This edition is described as based on Hardy’s 1874 manuscript and includes an introduction by Rosemarie Morgan on the novel’s publication history and its biblical and classical allusions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in classic novels of courtship and relationships
  • Readers who enjoy rural settings and stories centered on farming communities
  • Readers seeking a contextual edition with an introduction on publication history and literary allusions

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Courtship and relationshipsIndependence and decision-makingRural life and communityBiblical and classical allusions

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Book overview

Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy's passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, "The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels." Introducing the fictional name of "Wessex" to describe Hardy's legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid picture of rural life in southwest England.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardy's map of Wessex.
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