Far From the Madding Crowd

A tale of love and loss - the first of Thomas Hardy's novels to win him widespread recognition and popularity - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in May 2015.

About the author

Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King's College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy's novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

Summary

A tale of love and loss – the first of Thomas Hardy’s novels to win him widespread recognition and popularity – reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in May 2015.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hardy
• Publisher: William Collins
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 09.04.2015
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780008127701
• ISBN: 978-0-00-812770-1
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions (packing): 13.2 x 20 x 3 cm
• Subjects: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Media Tie-In, David Nicholls, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Rural communities, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Carey Mulligan, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, Michael Sheen, Juno Temple