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Far From the Madding Crowd

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13 June 2019
528 pages
9781509898817
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

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Far From the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered
I have always loved this author whose writing so romantically and evocatively captures the essence of that part of England
The imagined Wessex . . . appealed to a nostalgic appetite for vanishing pastoral traditions among the urbanized population of Victorian Britain
Hardy’s natural modesty and reticence were such that he stood at the back of the crowd until he was noticed and escorted to a place of honour