Far from the Madding Crowd

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 12/11/2001
ISBN: 9780375757976
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.16w x 1.08d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 08/19/2011 pg. 109

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 12782 / Far from the Madding Crowd
Reading Level: 9.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 25