Far from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Hardy, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0141393386 / ISBN 13: 9780141393384

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2013

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Brand New.

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• Titel: Far from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0141393386
• ISBN-13: 9780141393384
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: New

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy's novel of swiftpassion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.

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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.