Overview
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 to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels." Introducing the fictional name of "Wessex" to describe Hardy's legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid picture of rural life in southwest England. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardy's map of Wessex.
- | Author: Thomas Hardy
- | Publisher: Modern Library
- | Publication Date: Dec 11, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 512 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 037575797X
- | ISBN-13: 9780375757976
