- Fiction, Romance, Historical, Women farmers, fiction, Farm life, fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), fiction
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
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- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- First published
- 1874
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Edns., B. Tauchnitz, Arcturus
- Editions
- 250
- Language
- und, English, Swedish, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9780217835183
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- Fiction, Romance, Historical
- Women farmers, fiction
- Farm life, fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations), fiction
- Social life and customs
- Wessex England, fiction
- Classic Literature
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- British and Irish fiction (fictional works by one author)"
- Large type books
- Manners and customs
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Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored trag
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