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The Hand of Ethelberta. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy 's fourth published novel and his first major literary success. It was published on 23 November 1874. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. The novel is set in Thomas Hardy's Wessex in rural ...
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(Book 846 from 1001 books) - Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy, C1874 Characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin. Abstract: Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in ...
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Far from the Madding Crowd, novel by Thomas Hardy, published serially and anonymously in 1874 in The Cornhill Magazine and published in book form under Hardy’s name the same year. It was his first popular success. The plot centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a farm owner, and her three suitors, Gabriel.
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Aug 6, 2021 · PREFACE. In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of “Far from the Madding Crowd,” as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word “Wessex” from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.
Written in 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd was Hardy's first masterpiece. Alive with lush, idyllic settings that exert profound influences on the novel's characters, it is an unforgettable narrative of both beauty and devastation. Its portrait of rural life, and compelling examination of social conventions, has made it one of English ...
Dec 8, 2022 · BoD - Books on Demand, Dec 8, 2022 - Fiction - 513 pages. 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 ...
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Feb 1, 1994 · Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928: Title: Far from the Madding Crowd Credits: anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteers and revised by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D. Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Didactic fiction Subject: Love stories Subject: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction Subject ...