By: 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.
Genre(s): General Fiction
Language: English
Running Time: 14:40:15
Zip file size: 422.8MB
Catalog date: 2007-08-07
Read by: LibriVox Volunteers
Book Coordinator: J. M. Smallheer
Meta Coordinator: J. M. Smallheer
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