Thomas Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd

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Produktbeschreibung

For farmers, life in Great Britain in the 1800's was a never ending struggle. For a young woman who recently inherited a successful sheep farm, it could be even more difficult. Bathsheba Everdene, sure of herself and her ability finds that this was just one of the challenges she faced. Being beautiful, admired and desired, while working side-by-side with her faithful field workers complicates her life as she proves her dedication to a successful farm, and finds love and contentment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781483799933
• ISBN-10: 148379993X
• Artikelnr.: 45529272

Autorenporträt

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. He destroyed the manuscript of his first, unplaced novel, but -- encouraged by mentor and friend George Meredith -- tried again. His important work took place in an area of southern England he called Wessex, named after the English kingdom that existed before the Norman Conquest.