Far from the Madding Crowd. Illustrated
By Thomas Hardy
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It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. It describes the life and relationships of Bathsheba Everdene with her lonely neighbour William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Troy.
In 2007, the novel was ranked 10th on The Guardian's list of greatest love stories of all time.
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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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Set in the turn of the last century, young Calla Honeystone's care falls on relatives. She's a strange child who grows more weird and uncivilized in her teens, and the relatives decide she'd better be married off before the whole town realizes she's crazy. Her much older husband gets little attention from Calla, who also proves to be a disinterested mother who forgets her children exist. But when Calla meets Tyrell, a Black water dowser, she is suddenly in love and dreaming of escaping with him.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm a big fan of Joyce Carol Oates (except for We Were the Mulvaneys, which disturbs me to this day), so I was glad to come upon this new-to-me novel. It is the story of an aloof young woman (Calla) who is married off to a much older man. She remains distant from everyone until she falls in love with Tyrell Thompson, a black itinerant worker. As the story is set in the early 1900s, this inter-racial relationship is especially scandalous. The writing is sparse and poetical as Calla's granddaughter pieces together her story. I loved the writing and Calla's character is haunting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5“I Lock My Door upon Myself”, is a captivating novella by Joyce Carol Oates. She is a master at depicting unusual characters housed within a chilling tale. Once again, she does not let us down. Praise to Ms. Oates for a wonderful, intriguing work.P.S.: An exceprt from Christina Rosesetti’s, “Who Shall Deliver Me”:I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?Myself, arch-traitor to myself.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I grew up in western NYS, probably not more than 100 miles away from JCO grew up, at about the same time. So first of all, the geography in this novella irks me. She sets the story in an imaginary Eden County (OK, I can buy creating a county -- Faulkner did it), through which a river called the Chautauqua River runs that ends with a drop over Tintern Falls -- this is where I get uncomfortable. I grew up on Chautauqua Lake in Chautauqua County; there is no Chautauqua River. There are no significant river falls in western NYS besides Niagara Falls. If she is creating an imaginary county -- why call it by a rather unique name associated with a real place?Beyond that quibble -- I found the novel rather beautifully written, but bloodless. It's a tale of a passionate love affair between a "wild child," who has been married off to an older German Lutheran farmer, and an African-American itinerant water dowser. Unfortunately, no passion really comes through, and all the reader really contemplates are wasted lives. Didn't do it for me.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incredible triangulation of painting, poetry and narrative. Inspired by the haunting Ferdnand Khnopff painting of the same name, which takes its title from Christina Rosetti's poem, "Who Shall Deliver Me?", this novella is a layered tale that is equivalent in mastery to either of those "companion" works. It stands alone brilliantly, but when you've finished reading it, read the poem; contemplate the painting. You'll never be able to separate the three again. And you'll probably want to re- read the novella immediately, as I do. The story itself is relatively simple; a beautiful young red-headed woman married to an older man falls in love with a passing stranger---a black man with a gift for finding water. The inevitably tragic outcome of this liaison is slightly reminiscent of Ethan Frome, but richer and less "moral" in tone. 4 stars.