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Description:Far from the Madding Crowd was first published in 1874 and was sold out in just over two months, surprising even the publisher. The critics were not quite so enthusiastic, thought they all agreed on its power, and Henry James wrote: 'the only things we believe in are the sheep and the dogs'. Henry James was wrong. Far from the Madding Crowd, perhaps the best-loved and most humourous of Hardy's novels even though the familiar themes of suffering and betrayal are evident, is the product of Hardy's intimate and firsthand knowledge of the attitudes, habits, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies of rural men and women. It would be very difficult indeed to match his portrait of mid-Victorian Dorset before the railway. The mainspring of the book, nonetheless, centres around Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors. And, in portraying her caprice and willfulness gradually crushed by bitter self-knowledge and rejection, Hardy makes his own point about sexual love. 'Romance,' he says, should grow up 'in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality'. The cover shows a detail from '...The sun had closed the winter day...' by Joseph Farquharson, in the Manchested City Art Gallery.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Far from the Madding Crowd. To get started finding Far from the Madding Crowd, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 493

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Penguin English Library

Release: 1978

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Description: Far from the Madding Crowd was first published in 1874 and was sold out in just over two months, surprising even the publisher. The critics were not quite so enthusiastic, thought they all agreed on its power, and Henry James wrote: 'the only things we believe in are the sheep and the dogs'. Henry James was wrong. Far from the Madding Crowd, perhaps the best-loved and most humourous of Hardy's novels even though the familiar themes of suffering and betrayal are evident, is the product of Hardy's intimate and firsthand knowledge of the attitudes, habits, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies of rural men and women. It would be very difficult indeed to match his portrait of mid-Victorian Dorset before the railway. The mainspring of the book, nonetheless, centres around Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors. And, in portraying her caprice and willfulness gradually crushed by bitter self-knowledge and rejection, Hardy makes his own point about sexual love. 'Romance,' he says, should grow up 'in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality'. The cover shows a detail from '...The sun had closed the winter day...' by Joseph Farquharson, in the Manchested City Art Gallery.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Far from the Madding Crowd. To get started finding Far from the Madding Crowd, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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