Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

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9780140431261: Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0140431268 ISBN 13: 9780140431261

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1978

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Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with Hardy.

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Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction.

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