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Far from the Madding Crowd

By Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Margaret Drabble

By Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Margaret Drabble

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Part of Modern Library Classics

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Dec 11, 2001 | ISBN 9780375757976

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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Paperback $17.00
Dec 11, 2001 | ISBN 9780375757976
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  • $17.00

    Dec 11, 2001 | ISBN 9780375757976

  • $5.95

    Jun 01, 1983 | ISBN 9780553213317

  • $30.00

    Oct 15, 1991 | ISBN 9780679405764

  • Aug 12, 2014 | ISBN 9781551997407

  • Aug 26, 2008 | ISBN 9780553905557

  • Oct 31, 2000 | ISBN 9780679641506

  • Apr 28, 2015 | ISBN 9780553550672

    918 Minutes

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About Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, “The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels.” Introducing the fictional name of “Wessex” to describe Hardy’s legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid picture of rural life in southwest England.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardy’s map of Wessex.

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About Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester, England. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school.… More about Thomas Hardy

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“Far from the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardy’s great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note
for which his fiction is best remembered.”
-Margaret Drabble

Product Details

Category: Classic Fiction | Romance | Historical Fiction

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Modern Library
Dec 11, 2001 | 512 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757976

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