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Far From the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
First Published
2009
Subjects
Fiction
Women farmers
Women farmers in fiction
Farm life in fiction
Farm life
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Social life and customs
Wessex (England in fiction
Classic Literature
Historical Fiction
Romance
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British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Wessex (england), fiction
Fiction, romance, general
Large type books
Manners and customs
Romans, nouvelles
Mœurs et coutumes
Fiction, christian, romance, general
England, fiction
Fiction, general
Single women, fiction
Fiction, family life
Rural conditions
Didactic fiction
Love stories
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Pastoral fiction
Farm life -- Fiction
Women farmers -- Fiction
Wessex (England) -- Fiction
Romance fiction
Romance-language fiction
Agricultrices
Hardy, thomas , 1840-1928
Farm life--fiction
Women farmers--fiction
Triangles (interpersonal relations)--fiction
Pr4745.a2 s38 1986
823/.8
Description
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.