7/7/2023 0 Comments Far far from the madding crowd![]() ![]() She then meets a neighboring well-to-do farmer, Mr. Gabriel loses most of his herd and becomes a faithful shepherd for Bathsheba. Plot and Major Characters Bathsheba Everdene, who has inherited a large farm from her uncle, becomes the center of attention for three men.Īfter a chance meeting with a gentle sheep farmer, Gabriel Oak, Gabriel proposes marriage to Bathsheba, but is refused, as she does not consider him a proper suitor. The novel’s protagonist, Bathsheba Everdene, would also presage other strong Hardy heroines. Variations of its rustic characters and settings were to be repeated in several future novels. The novel, whose title was borrowed from Thomas Gray’s famous Elegy in a Country Churchyard, initially appeared in magazine serial form and was the first Hardy work to be widely reviewed. It was the first of his so-called “Wessex novels,” set in a fictitious English county closely resembling Hardy’s native Dorsetshire. Long considered one of England’s foremost 19th Century novelists, Thomas Hardy established his reputation with the publication of Far from the Madding Crowd in 1874. ![]()
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