Far From the Madding Crowd audiobook
by Thomas Hardy
Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardys fourth novel.It centres on the lives of five characters,Gabriel Oak,Bathsheba Everdene,Mr Boldwood,Sgt.Troy and Fanny Robin.The plot involves love,loyalty,death and betrayal and all this is delivered to us in Hardys most eloquent prose.The images of character and nature are painted for our minds eye with sublime style.Finally,but not least, Hardys use of the Greek chorus is unsurpassed in injecting comedy and nudging the story along(Summary by Tadhg Hynes)
| Far From the Madding Crowd | |
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 Bathsheba saves Gabriel’s life (Plate 1, byHelen Paterson Allingham, for the serial edition in Cornhill Magazine). |
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| Author(s) | Thomas Hardy |
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Cornhill Magazine |
| Publication date | 1874 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 464 pages (Harper & Brothers edition, 1912) |
| ISBN | NA (original edition), ISBN 0-333-16891-7 (London : Macmillan, 1975) |
| Preceded by | ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’ |
| Followed by | ‘The Hand of Ethelberta’ |