Far from the Madding Crowd
About this book
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
Subjects
- 823/.8
- adultery
- agricultrices
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)"
- classic literature
- courtship
- death
- didactic fiction
- england, fiction
- english literature
- farm life
- farm life, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, christian, romance
- fiction, christian, romance, general
- fiction, family life
- fiction, romance, historical
- hardy, thomas , 1840-1928
- husband and wife
- large type books
- long now manual for civilization
- love stories
- manners and customs
- mœurs et coutumes
- open_syllabus_project
- pastoral fiction
- pr4745.a2 s38 1986
- pride and vanity
- romance-language fiction
- romans, nouvelles
- rural conditions
- shepherds
- single women, fiction
- social life and customs
- triangles (interpersonal relations)
- triangles (interpersonal relations), fiction
- wessex england, fiction
- women farmers
- women farmers, fiction