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Far From the Madding Crowd Paperback Book

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Thomas Hardy classic novel
Independent spirited heroine Bathsheba
Romantic pastoral English tale
372 pages of intrigue
Professionally typeset new edition
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"The greatest tragic writer among English novelists."Virginia Woolf Far from the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardys great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered."Margaret Drabble Far from the Madding Crowd, the fourth novel written by Thomas Hardy, is a pensive yet pastoral novel that initially appeared in serial form in the late 1800s. It has since become one of the most popular books of English literature, with its rich rhythms of rural life, beautiful and independent heroine, and romantic intrigue. In Wessex, the novels apocryphal region of rural southwest England, the independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has a chance encounter with a virtuous young shepherd named Gabriel Oak He is taken by her beauty, and proposes marriage, and she refuses. Soon after, Bathsheba moves away to the town of Weatherbury, and Gabriel falls on hard times. Penniless, and roving from town to town seeking employment, he happens to come upon a fire ravaging a farm. Gabriel aids in getting the fire under control, and is stunned to discover that the farm is owned by Bathsheba. Once again, they are reunited, yet now Gabriel is employed as a farmhand. When a second suitor, a local landowner, seeks her affection the inextricable struggles of love and betrayal spins Bathshebas life into a maze of uncontrollable frenzy and passion. With an eyecatching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Far from the Madding...

SKU: M9781513266091
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Binding: Paperback;372 pages; Publisher: Mint Editions; Classification: FA; Weight: 518 g; Dimensions: 202 x 128 x 25

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