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  • Published: 28 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9780553550672
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Far From the Madding Crowd




Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library

This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous.

Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy’s great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene—and the devoted shepherd, obsessed farmer, and dashing soldier who vie for her favor—move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution and the encroachment of modern life.

  • Published: 28 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9780553550672
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

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About the author

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) wrote stories, novellas, and novels. His work exposed the injustices of Victorian society. However, following the widespread outrage in reaction to his novel Jude the Obscure, Hardy abandoned fiction altogether and spent his last years writing poetry.

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