Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
Fiction, Romance, HistoricalWomen farmers, fictionFarm life, fictionTriangles (Interpersonal relations), fictionSocial life and customs
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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.
Themes & subjects
Fiction, Romance, HistoricalWomen farmers, fictionFarm life, fictionTriangles (Interpersonal relations), fictionSocial life and customsWessex England, fiction
Characters & people
Bathsheba EverdeneBoldwoodSergeant TroyGabriel OakThomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Setting
Wessex (England)DorsetEnglandDorset (England)Wessex (EnglandWessex19th century
About the author
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored t…
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