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Far From the Madding Crowd (Diversion Classics)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Diversion Classics)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Diversion Classics)
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Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms.

Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel and first major literary success follows the spirited Bathsheba Everdene on her journey to Weatherbury to become a farmer on the area’s largest estate. Drawn by her dauntless nature and extraordinary beauty, three very different men seek her heart, complicating the simple life she’s carved for herself in the process. Hardy’s rich depiction of the rural world within Wessex, and stunningly textured characters have made this one of the most influential Romance pieces of its time.

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Release dateMay 24, 2016
ISBN9781682306437
Far From the Madding Crowd (Diversion Classics)
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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