Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics)
 

Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

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... (read more)

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Forget the infamous “love triangle”. In Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy introduces us to the precarious “love square”. At the core of all the turmoil is beautiful farm girl, Bathsheba Everdene - spirited, vain, intelligent and adept at toying with the hearts of men.

Inevitably beguiled by her charms a humble and kind farmer, Gabriel Oak, fervently attempts to win Bathsheba’s affections. Enter the competition: (suitor#2) Farmer Boldwood - a wealthy and temperate middle-aged...

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  • diya c

    diya c said:

    what is the book about?

    posted Wednesday, March 19 2008
  • Deltasky

    deltasky said:

    Hanrique I studied this book in U of T Canada many years ago. I am now sixty four and would have to reread the book to give you an honest answer. I do think the character was used by the heroine but I may be confusing this with sons and lovers.I have read so many of Lawrences books and love them all. I lived in the part of England he came from.

    posted Sunday, October 14 2007
  • hanrique

    hanrique said:

    do people like gabriel oak exist

    posted Friday, October 12 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
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