Publisher: Penguin Classics
The meek one, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'
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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.
Title: Far From the Madding Crowd
Original: Far From the Madding Crowd
Category: Novel
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Collins Classics
Year: 2010
Pgs: 458
Weight: 0.262 kg
ISBN: 978-0-00-739516-3
This book is in English
‘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.
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