Name: Far from the Madding Crowd
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Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781515162322

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Hardy

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

298

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9781515162322

Synopsis "Far from the Madding Crowd"

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide readership and critical acclaim. 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 to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels." The book is often regarded as an early piece of feminist literature, since it features an independent woman with the courage to defy convention by running a farm herself. Although Bathsheba's passionate nature leads her into serious errors of judgment, Hardy endows her with sufficient resilience, intelligence, and good luck to overcome her youthful folly. Title Hardy took the title from Thomas Gray's poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751). Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. "Madding" means "frenzied" here. Lucasta Miller points out that the title is an ironic literary joke as Gray is idealising the noiselessness and sequestered calm whereas Hardy disrupts the idyll, and not just by introducing the sound and fury of an extreme plot .... he is out to subvert his readers' complacency.

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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced in both his novels and his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth

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