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Far from the Madding Crowd de Thomas Hardy

Far from the Madding Crowd: Chartwell Deluxe Editions

Autor Thomas Hardy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mai 2026

Descoperim în Far From the Madding Crowd o voce narativă care nu doar descrie un peisaj, ci fundamentează o întreagă geografie literară: celebrul Wessex. În paginile acestui roman, Thomas Hardy reușește să transforme un arhaism istoric într-un spațiu viu, populat de personaje prinse între tradiția rurală și forțele modernizării victoriene. Structura narativă gravitează în jurul Bathshebei Everdene, o figură feminină de o independență surprinzătoare pentru epoca sa, a cărei prezență „vitală și pasionată” dictează ritmul întregii comunități din Weatherbury. La intersecția dintre The Return of the Native și Tess of the D'Urbervilles, această operă combină analiza psihologică a dorinței cu o evocare aproape senzorială a naturii. Dacă în The Return of the Native peisajul pare să exercite un control fatalist asupra destinelor, aici, în Far From the Madding Crowd, natura este un partener de dialog pentru ambițiile și erorile umane. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în echilibrul dintre momentele de idilă pastorală și tensiunea dramatică generată de cei trei bărbați care o curtează pe Bathsheba: statornicul Gabriel Oak, impetuosul sergent Troy și obsesivul Boldwood. Față de lucrările ulterioare, precum Jude the Obscure sau The Mayor of Casterbridge, unde tragismul devine adesea copleșitor, acest prim succes major al lui Hardy păstrează o doză de romantism robust. Tonul este unul contemplativ, zăbovind asupra detaliilor muncii agricole — de la tunsul oilor la seceriș — oferind cititorului o experiență imersivă într-o lume în care „departe de mulțimea dezlănțuită” nu înseamnă liniște, ci o confruntare directă cu propriile pasiuni.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780785849421
ISBN-10: 0785849424
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 150 x 194 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc.
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Recomandăm acest volum celor care apreciază proza clasică de o mare profunzime psihologică și descrierile de natură care devin ele însele personaje. Cititorul va descoperi o eroină fascinantă, Bathsheba Everdene, a cărei luptă pentru autonomie rămâne relevantă și astăzi. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum Thomas Hardy a revoluționat romanul victorian, oferind o perspectivă onestă asupra condiției umane în mediul rural englezesc.

Despre autor

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) a fost un romancier și poet englez de seamă, reprezentant al realismului victorian cu puternice nuanțe romantice. Născut în Dorset, el a imortalizat peisajul natal sub numele ficțional de Wessex, criticând adesea declinul statutului populației rurale în fața industrializării. Deși s-a considerat în primul rând poet, a atins celebritatea prin romane precum Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles și Jude the Obscure. Opera sa a influențat generații de scriitori, fiind admirată de mari poeți precum Ezra Pound și W.H. Auden pentru profunzimea sa tragică și stilul evocativ.

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When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgment, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, - that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the con- gegation reached the Nicene creed, - and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture. Since he lived six times as many working-days as Sundays, Oak's appearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own - the mental picture formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed in that way. He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp - their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidit

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Far from the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered."-Margaret Drabble

Far from the Madding Crowd , the fourth novel written by Thomas Hardy, is a pensive yet pastoral novel that initially appeared in serial form in the late 1800's. It has since become one of the most popular books of English literature, with its rich rhythms of rural life, beautiful and independent heroine, and romantic intrigue.

In Wessex, the novel's apocryphal region of rural southwest England, the independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has a chance encounter with a virtuous young shepherd named Gabriel Oak; He is taken by her beauty, and proposes marriage, and she refuses. Soon after, Bathsheba moves away to the town of Weatherbury, and Gabriel falls on hard times. Penniless, and roving from town to town seeking employment, he happens to come upon a fire ravaging a farm. Gabriel aids in getting the fire under control, and is stunned to discover that the farm is owned by Bathsheba. Once again, they are reunited, yet now Gabriel is employed as a farmhand. When a second suitor, a local landowner, seeks her affection the inextricable struggles of love and betrayal spins Bathsheba's life into a maze of uncontrollable frenzy and passion.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Far from the Madding Crowd is both modern and readable. 

Notă biografică

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. 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). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. He destroyed the manuscript of his first, unplaced novel, but -- encouraged by mentor and friend George Meredith -- tried again. His important work took place in an area of southern England he called Wessex, named after the English kingdom that existed before the Norman Conquest.

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"Vital, passionate, spirited -- from the moment Bathsheba appears she is beguiling. You can denounce her faults -- she's selfish and capricious -- but it's hard not to admire her determined independence."
--Independent

 "Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd is the most romantic book I have ever read. I love the line where he says: 'Whenever you look up, there I shall be -- and whenever I look up there will be you.' It is very simple and understated, but also incredibly romantic."
--Liz Jensen, Independent
"Vital, passionate, spirited - from the moment Bathsheba appears she is beguiling. You can denounce her faults - she's selfish and capricious - but it's hard not to admire her determined independence" -- Di Speirs (Executive Producer Of Readings At The Bbc) Independent "Hardy's warmest and most enchanting novel" Daily Express "Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd is the most romantic book I have ever read. I love the line where he says: "Whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up there will be you." It is very simple and understated, but also incredibly romantic" -- Liz Jensen Independent "Hardy expounds on his favourite themes: misunderstandings, missed opportunities, unrequited love and fatal omissions" Sunday Times "The age-old dilemma - mind-blowing passion versus a man who knows how to put up shelves" Independent