Far From the Madding Crowd
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Publisher Description
The novel that first brought Thomas Hardy real success, it is a love-letter to rural English life, unafraid to show both its hardships and its beauty.
Bathsheba, the story’s heroine, inherits the family farm at the start of the novel, and is forced to navigate both the challenges presented by her work and by the multiple men in her life – neither easy for a woman at that time. In addition to being a classic of Victorian literature, it has been called an early feminist novel, thanks to the resilience, independence, and depth shown by Bathsheba, and for its negative depiction of the sufferings of women rendered powerless by law and custom.
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Epic love story? Check. Gorgeous descriptions of the English countryside? Check. Ahead-of-her-time feminist protagonist? Double check. There are so many reasons to love Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd, including the fact that it’s been made into a movie starring Carey Mulligan. We enjoyed being swept away by the drama and tumultuous passions that pass between the charismatic, headstrong Bathsheba and her variously suitable suitors.