num_pages: 14
description: Far From The Madding Crowd, perhaps the best-known and most humorous of Hardy's novels even though the familiar themes of suffering and betrayal are evident, is the product of Hardy's intimate and first-hand knowledge of the attributes, habits, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies of rural men and women. The mainspring of the book is Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors. In portraying her caprice and willfulness gradually crushed by bitter self-knowledge and rejection, Hardy makes his point about sexual love.
language: English
title: Far from the Madding Crowd
titlecomplete: Far from the Madding Crowd
characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood,, William Boldwood, Fanny Robin, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin, Bathsheba Everdene, Francis Troy, Gabriel Oak
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 148919
places: England, Dorset, England, Wessex, England, Dorset, England (United Kingdom),, United Kingdom, Wessex, England
publisher: Chivers Audio Books