Far from the Madding CrowdFar from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, “The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels.” Introducing the fictional name of “Wessex” to describe Hardy’s legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid picture of rural life in southwest England. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardy’s map of Wessex. |
Contents
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CHAPTER V | 36 |
CHAPTER VII | 53 |
CHAPTER IX | 79 |
Outside the Barracks SnowA Meeting | 93 |
CHAPTER XIV | 110 |
CHAPTER XVI | 127 |
CHAPTER XX | 145 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII | 288 |
CHAPTER XL | 297 |
CHAPTER XLI | 305 |
CHAPTER XLII | 317 |
CHAPTER XLIII | 330 |
CHAPTER XLIV | 341 |
CHAPTER XLV | 350 |
CHAPTER XLVII | 364 |
CHAPTER XXII | 160 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 180 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 191 |
CHAPTER XXVIII | 206 |
CHAPTER XXX | 220 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 236 |
CHAPTER XXXIV | 254 |
CHAPTER XXXVI | 271 |
CHAPTER XLIX | 373 |
CHAPTER L | 380 |
CHAPTER LI | 396 |
CHAPTER LII | 405 |
CHAPTER LIV | 431 |
CHAPTER LVII | 452 |
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