Far From the Madding Crowd

Author: Thomas Hardy

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 8 July 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers (William Collins) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Collins Classics' series.

Paperback | 480 pages
134 x 176 x 30 | 248g

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‘I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die’

Independent and spirited, Bathsheba Everdene owns the hearts of three men. Striving to win her love in different ways, their relationships with Bathsheba complicate her life in bucolic Wessex – and cast shadows over their own. With the morals and expectations of rural society weighing heavily upon her, Bathsheba experiences the torture of unrequited love and betrayal, and discovers how random acts of chance and tragedy can dramatically alter life’s course.

The first of Hardy’s novels to become a major literary success, Far from the Madding Crowd explores what it means to live and to love.