Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy

<b>Far from the Madding Crowd</b>, Hardy's passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. 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 . . . must hold its place among the great English novels." Introducing the fictional name of "Wessex" to describe Hardy's legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid picture of rural life in southwest England. <p/>This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardy's map of Wessex.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Thomas Hardy<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 12/11/2001<br><b>Pages:</b> 512<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.83lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.14h x 5.16w x 1.08d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375757976<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 9.7<br><b>Point Value:</b> 25<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>12782 / Far from the Madding Crowd<br><br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 08/19/2011 pg. 109<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Margaret Drabble edited <b>The Oxford Companion to English Literature</b> and <b>The Genius of Thomas Hardy</b>. Her novels include<b> The Waterfall</b> and <b>The Gates of Ivory</b>,