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For better or worse, Far from the Madding Crowd was the novel Victorian readers wanted him to write over and over again. One early reviewer was delighted by the pastoral when the sheep are shorn in the ancient town of Weatherbury, the scene is one that Shakespeare or that Chaucer might have watched. But what Hardy had promised as a quiet story took off in unexpected directions. Bathsheba is not merely tempted to make the wrong choice, but does so, and is only saved from the lifelong consequences of her mistake when a third suitor, Farmer Boldwood, murders the husband who torments her. Rather than a pastoral tone and idyllic simplicity, noted a critic in the Westminster Review, what marked Far from the Madding Crowd was its violent sensationalism: marital desertion, illegitimacy, death in childbirth, murder, attempted suicide and insanity. Yet this is not a dark novel. Nearly 30 years after its publication, Hardy wrote that it seemed to him like the work of a youngish hand, though perhaps there is something in it which I could not have put there had I been older. That something has been variously identified as charm, amplitude, richness of incident and humour, or, more broadly, the

Author

Phillip Mallett, 1946-

Publisher

Connell Guides Publishing Ltd

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781907776151

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities