Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy, Margaret Drabble

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English

Modern Library Inc
15 December 2001

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

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.

By: Thomas Hardy
Introduction by: Margaret Drabble
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780375757976
ISBN 10: 037575797X
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 15 December 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Margaret Drabble edited The Oxford Companion to English Literature and The Genius of Thomas Hardy. Her novels include The Waterfall and The Gates of Ivory, and, most recently, The Witch of Exmoor and The Peppered Moth. She lives in England.

Reviews for Far from the Madding Crowd

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. -Margaret Drabble