Far from the Madding Crowd
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Subjects: Didactic fiction; Love stories; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Pastoral fiction; Farm life -- Fiction; Women farmers -- Fiction; Wessex (England) -- Fiction
Description: <p><i>Far from the Madding Crowd</i> was <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy">Thomas Hardy’s</a> fourth novel and was completed in 1874. It was originally serialized in <i>Cornhill Magazine</i> and was quickly published in a successful single volume.</p>
			<p>Hardy described Wessex as “a merely realistic dream country” and so it is in <i>Far from the Madding Crowd</i>, where an idyllic view of the countryside is interrupted by the bitter reality of farming life. The novel is the first that Hardy sets in fictional Wessex; he quickly realised that setting novels there could be a money-earner that would subsidise his poetry-writing ambitions.</p>
			<p>Gabriel Oak, the faithful man and aspiring farmer; Bathsheba Everdene, the young and independent lady farmer; William Boldwood, the lonely neighbour; and Sergeant Troy, the dashing military man, all lead intertwined lives which are full of love and loss.</p>