- Published: 7 June 2011
- ISBN: 9780451531827
- Imprint: Signet
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $14.99
Far From the Madding Crowd
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Gabriel Oaks observes Bathsheba Everdene, the young mistress of Weatherbury Farm, fall victim to bad decisions and romantic impulses, unaware of the stroke of fate that will finally bring about their union.
- Published: 7 June 2011
- ISBN: 9780451531827
- Imprint: Signet
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $14.99
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Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.