Far From the Madding Crowd (Collins Classics)
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Far From the Madding Crowd (Collins Classics)
By (Author) Thomas Hardy
HarperCollins Publishers
William Collins
1st June 2011
8th July 2010
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary theory
Rural communities
823.8
Physical Properties
Paperback
480
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 30mm
260g
Description
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Here is one of Thomas Hardys most popular novels, soon to be released as a major motion picture in May 2015.
I shall do one thing in this life one thing certain that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die
Independent and spirited, Bathsheba Everdene owns the hearts of three men. Striving to win her love in different ways, their relationships with Bathsheba complicate her life in bucolic Wessex and cast shadows over their own. With the morals and expectations of rural society weighing heavily upon her, Bathsheba experiences the torture of unrequited love and betrayal, and discovers how random acts of chance and tragedy can dramatically alter lifes course.
The first of Hardys novels to become a major literary success, Far from the Madding Crowd explores what it means to live and to love.
Author Bio
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928) was an English author and poet best known for his literary masterpieces Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and The Mayor of Casterbridge. While he achieved success during his lifetime for his novels, Hardy considered himself first and foremost a poet, and his poetry is today recognized as a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s.
