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Thomas Hardy
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Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Popular Classics) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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384 |
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1994-03-31 |
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0140620478 |
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Penguin Books |
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0.49 pounds |
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0.55 x 4.37 x 7.13 inches |
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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 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.
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Michelle (Greece) (2008/03/13):
Although Hardy deals with the familiar themes of betrayal and the pain of love in this novel, it is one of the warmest, most humorous of his works.Hardy's richly evocative novel opens with the arrival of Bathsheba in the village of Weatherbury to work the large dilapidated farm that is her inheritance. The plot turns on her sentimental education, her infatuation for Sergeant Troy, a dazzling young cavalry officer, and her relationship with the shepherd-farmer, Gabriel Oak. Gabriel's strong presence permeates a drama of temptation, treachery and passion in which Bathsheba achieves a painful but necessary self-knowledge.
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