![]() ![]() Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. ![]() A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens. ![]() Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. The novel deals in themes of love, honor and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. It is the first of Hardy's novels to be set in a fictional county of Wessex in rural southwest England. This carefully crafted ebook: "FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.įar from the Madding Crowd tells the story of the farmer Bathsheba Everdene, her life and relationships - especially with her lonely neighbor William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Troy. ![]()
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