![]() ![]() Although Bathsheba's passionate nature leads her into serious errors of judgment, Hardy endows her with sufficient resilience, intelligence, and good luck to overcome her youthful folly. ![]() must hold its place among the great English novels." The book is often regarded as an early piece of feminist literature, since it features an independent woman with the courage to defy convention by running a farm herself. According to Virginia Woolf, "The subject was right the method was right the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide readership and critical acclaim. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. Troy is impulsivehe leaves his clerk job to enlist in the armyand is often described as a child who follows his instincts and can’t think of other people’s thoughts or desires over his own. Download cover art Download CD case insert Far from the Madding Crowdįar from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Bathsheba ’s third suitor is the son of a doctor who was ruined by debt after moving from town to country. ![]()
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