Far From the Madding Crowd (Collins Classics)

Thomas Hardy

Nov 2010 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Here is one of Thomas Hardy’s most popular novels, soon to be released as a major motion picture in May 2015.

‘I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die’

Independent and spirited, Bathsheba Everdene owns the hearts of three men. Striving to win her love in different ways, their relationships with Bathsheba complicate her life in bucolic Wessex – and cast shadows over their own. With the morals and expectations of rural society weighing heavily upon her, Bathsheba experiences the torture of unrequited love and betrayal, and discovers how random acts of chance and tragedy can dramatically alter life’s course.

The first of Hardy’s novels to become a major literary success, Far from the Madding Crowd explores what it means to live and to love.

Ratings and reviews

I know this ebook is only .99 cents, but come on a free sample should at least be a sample or just don't offer it. This free "sample" ends before the table of contents so it is just the cover and the history of the publisher. Absolutely no preview of the book's contents at all.

This is NOT a full story! It's only 52 pages. I wish I had noticed that, but thankful that I only paid .99 cents. Cut my losses and look for the full book.

In the Boldwood character, Hardy develops the disturbing idea that, for some people, intimate relationships will always be too dangerous to have anything but a destructive outcome.

About the author

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was one of the most significant novelists and poets of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His novels include ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’, ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ and ‘Jude the Obscure’.