Книга: HARDY, THOMAS «FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD--HC»
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In Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. One of his first works set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. This edition, based on Hardy's original 1874 manuscript, is the complete novel he never saw published, and restores its full candor and innovation. Rosemarie Morgan's introduction discusses the history of its publication, as well as the biblical and classical...
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Hardy, Thomas. 1840-1928.
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Far from the Madding Crowd — Infobox Book name = Far from the Madding Crowd image caption = Bathsheba saves Gabriel s life (Plate 1, by Helen Paterson Allingham, for the serial edition in Cornhill Magazine ). author = Thomas Hardy country = England language = English genre … Wikipedia
far from the madding crowd — secluded or removed from public notice Origin: in allusion to use in Gray s Elegy, also to the title of one of Thomas Hardy s novels * * * Far from the Madding Crowd [Far from the Madding Crowd] a novel (1874) by Thomas Hardy. It is a love story… … Useful english dictionary
far from the madding crowd — Meaning A quiet and rural place. Origin Hardy took the title for his novel from Thomas Gray s poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Far from the madding crowd s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn d to stray; Along the cool… … Meaning and origin of phrases
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