num_pages: 493
description: 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.
language: English
title: Far from the Madding Crowd
titlecomplete: Far from the Madding Crowd
characters: Francis Troy, William Boldwood, Fanny Robin, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood,, Bathsheba Everdene, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin, Gabriel Oak
genres: Literature, British Literature, Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 148964
places: Dorset, England, United Kingdom, England, Wessex, England, Wessex, England, Dorset, England (United Kingdom),
publisher: Penguin USA (P)