The novel is the first that Hardy sets in fictional Wessex he quickly realised that setting novels there could be a money-earner that would subsidise his poetry-writing ambitions. Hardy described Wessex as âa merely realistic dream countryâ and so it is in Far from the Madding Crowd, where an idyllic view of the countryside is interrupted by the bitter reality of farming life. It was originally serialized in Cornhill Magazine and was quickly published in a successful single volume. Standard Ebooksġ40,193 words (8 hours 30 minutes) with a reading ease of 70.73 (fairly easy)įar from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardyâs fourth novel and was completed in 1874. Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
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