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Hardy, Thomas; Blythe, Ronald (Edited by)
Far from the Madding Crowd
Harmondsworth Penguin Books; Penguin Classics 1985 0140431268 / 9780140431261 5th printing Mass Market Paperback Good
493 pp : 18 cm. First published, 1874. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Droplet stain/flyleaf, otherwise tight & clean. Browning. "Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with Hardy. / Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth - Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels - Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure - he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy." - Publisher.
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