Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. Critical notices were plentiful and mostly positive. The book may be described as an early piece of feminist literature, since it features an independent woman with the courage to defy convention by running a farm herself. Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 ? 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth. 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).

Media	Böcker Pocketbok (Bok med mjukt omslag och limmad rygg)
Releasedatum	8 januari 2013
ISBN13	9781481939539
Utgivare	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf
Antal sidor	552
Mått	152 × 229 × 28 mm · 730 g
Språk	Engelska
Medverkande	Alex Struik