Far from the Madding Crowd: A Woman Farmer and Her Three Suitors
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, James Tissot and William Quiller Orchardson. A woman inherits a farm and runs it herself, and three men want her: the shepherd who waits, the farmer who breaks, and the soldier who does not deserve her. Hardy published it serially and anonymously, and readers guessed George Eliot. It paid well enough that he gave up architecture for good and named his imaginary county Wessex for the first time here. Forty-seven plates of sheepfolds, dairymaids and pastoral landscape by painters including Frederick Sargent and William Shayer follow the flocks and fields of Hardy's Wessex.
Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, James Tissot and William Quiller Orchardson. A woman inherits a farm and runs it herself, and three men want her: the shepherd who waits, the farmer who breaks, and the soldier who does not deserve her. Hardy published it ...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, and trained as an architect. The reception of Jude the Obscure made him abandon fiction for verse, which he wrote for another thirty years. His works include Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, and trained as an architect. The reception of Jude the Obscure made him abandon fiction for verse, which he wrote for another thirty years. His works include Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the...
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