A tale of love and loss - the first of Thomas Hardy's novels to win him widespread recognition and popularity - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in May 2015.
The film version of Far from the Madding Crowd, is released in UK cinemas on Friday 1 May 2015. Click below to view the trailer.
This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous.
| Primary Genre | Classic fiction: general and literary |
This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous.Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy's great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene-and the devoted shepherd, obsessed farmer, and dashing soldier who vie for her favor-move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution and the encroachment of modern life.
Far from the Madding Crowd features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction, Fiction
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Far from the Madding Crowd was written by Thomas Hardy and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Far from the Madding Crowd has 464 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage Classics series
