Thomas Hardy's 'Far From the Madding Crowd' is a timeless historical romance novel set in rural England. The book explores themes of love, passion, betrayal, an

One of Thomas Hardy's most beloved novels, Far from the Madding Crowd follows the romantic entanglements of Bathsheba Everdene, a headstrong and independent you

CHAPTER I. It was half-past four o’clock (by the testimony of the land-surveyor, my authority for the particulars of this story, a gentleman with the faintest