Title: Far From The Madding Crowd Volume I
First published: November 1, 2006
Description: Hardy’s first major success, this novel was originally published anonymously in serial form in Cornhill magazine in 1874. The author made extensive changes to the text over the following twenty years. Set in Hardy’s Wessex, a young man falls victim to his own obsession with an amorous farm girl in this classic novel of fate and unrequited love.
Subjects: Fiction, Manners and customs in fiction, Farming in fiction, Urequited Love
Places: Wessex, Dorset (England)
Time periods: 19th century