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Thomas Hardy's Wessex was first mentioned in Far from the Madding Crowd; describing the "partly real, partly dream-country" that unifies his novels of southwest England. Far from the Madding Crowd offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished.
- Thomas Hardy
- 464 pages (Harper & Brothers edition, 1912)
- 1874
- 1874
Apr 19, 2015 · ‘Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife’ is a line from Thomas Gray’s 1751 poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. (‘Madding’ is an old word meaning ‘frenzied’ or ‘becoming mad’ and so doesn’t mean quite the same thing as ‘maddening’.)
Apr 24, 2015 · Despite its happy ending, Far From the Madding Crowd is an unsettling, unstable book. Its very title – a quotation from Gray’s “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard” – is an ironic literary...
- Lucasta Miller
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A short summary of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Far From the Madding Crowd.
- Thomas Hardy
- 1874
Far from the Madding Crowd is basically the story of Bathsheba Everdene and how her three suitors affect her life. This is my second Thomas Hardy book, Jude the Obscure was the first, I found Jude the Obscure very depressing though quite a gripping read.
Far From the Madding Crowd was his fourth novel but first commercial success, a story set against the seemingly idyllic backdrop of a farming community that deals with the harsh realities those living in this picturesque world often face.
