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  • Published: 26 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553905557
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Far From the Madding Crowd





Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library

Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, “The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels.” Introducing the fictional name of “Wessex” to describe Hardy’s legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid picture of rural life in southwest England.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardy’s map of Wessex.

  • Published: 26 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553905557
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

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Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

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