num_pages: 382
description: 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.
language: English
title: Far from the Madding Crowd
titlecomplete: Far from the Madding Crowd
characters: William Boldwood, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood,, Gabriel Oak, Fanny Robin, Francis Troy, Bathsheba Everdene, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Victorian, Novels
ratings_count: 148919
places: England, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Wessex, England, Wessex, England, Dorset, England (United Kingdom),
publisher: Signet Classics