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Far from the Madding Crowd : Large Print, Paperback / softback Book

Far from the Madding Crowd : Large Print Paperback / softback

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Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist.

When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors; the seemingly commonplace man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier Francis Troy, and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood.

Her choice, and the tragedy it provokes, lie at the centre of Hardy's ambivalent story.Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement.

The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances.

Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after the 1960s Movement.

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