Far from the Madding Crowd
A young shepherd falls in love with a young, seemingly independent and strong-willed lady farmer.
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- Length
- 138,000 words
- Reading time
- About 8 hours
- Format
- EPUB, DRM-free
About the book
Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel and was completed in 1874. It was originally serialized in Cornhill Magazine and was quickly published in a successful single volume.
Hardy described Wessex as “a merely realistic dream country” and so it is in Far from the Madding Crowd, where an idyllic view of the countryside is interrupted by the bitter reality of farming life. The novel is the first that Hardy sets in fictional Wessex; he quickly realised that setting novels there could be a money-earner that would subsidise his poetry-writing ambitions.
This is the Standard Ebooks edition, carefully proofread and typeset, with a table of contents and linked footnotes.
