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Far From The Madding Crowd
Love, pride, and destiny collide in Thomas Hardy’s sweeping countryside romance. Far From the Madding Crowd follows Bathsheba Everdene—spirited, independent, and determined to chart her own path—as she navigates the hearts of three very different the loyal Gabriel Oak, the proud Mr. Boldwood, and the reckless Sergeant Troy.
Set against the rolling fields of rural England, Hardy’s novel blends passion and tragedy with deep compassion for human folly. It’s a story of choices—of how love can lift us or undo us, and how character endures when fortune fades.
With its strong heroine, vivid landscapes, and timeless emotions, Far From the Madding Crowd remains one of literature’s greatest love stories—bold, beautiful, and heartbreakingly real.
Set against the rolling fields of rural England, Hardy’s novel blends passion and tragedy with deep compassion for human folly. It’s a story of choices—of how love can lift us or undo us, and how character endures when fortune fades.
With its strong heroine, vivid landscapes, and timeless emotions, Far From the Madding Crowd remains one of literature’s greatest love stories—bold, beautiful, and heartbreakingly real.
478 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 10, 2025
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Thomas Hardy
2,677 books6,982 followersThomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.
The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.
Excerpted from Wikipedia.
The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.
Excerpted from Wikipedia.
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