Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Illustrated by Helen Allingham
13 June 2019Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy’s novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility.
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Details
13 June 2019528 pages
9781509898817Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
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 rememberedMargaret Drabble
I have always loved this author whose writing so romantically and evocatively captures the essence of that part of EnglandThe Australian
The imagined Wessex . . . appealed to a nostalgic appetite for vanishing pastoral traditions among the urbanized population of Victorian BritainDinah Birch, Guardian
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 honourGuardian
