Title: Far from the Madding Crowd
Description: Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Women farmers, fiction, Farm life, fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), fiction, Social life and customs, Wessex England, fiction, Classic Literature, open_syllabus_project, British and Irish fiction (fictional works by one author)", Large type books, Manners and customs, Romans, nouvelles, Mœurs et coutumes, Fiction, christian, romance, general, England, fiction, Single women, fiction, Fiction, family life, Rural conditions, Didactic fiction, Love stories, Pastoral fiction, Romance-language fiction, Agricultrices, Hardy, Thomas , 1840-1928, Pr4745.a2 s38 1986, 823/.8, Fiction, christian, romance, English literature, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Farm life, Fiction, Women farmers, Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Places: Wessex (England), Dorset, England, Dorset (England), Wessex (England, Wessex
People: Bathsheba Everdene, Boldwood, Sergeant Troy, Gabriel Oak, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Time periods: 19th century