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  • Location: Dorset "Wessex", Dorchester, Puddletown, Higher Bockhampton

Far From the Madding Crowd

Far From the Madding Crowd

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1847: A woman has three different suitors to choose from..

  • ISBN: 978-1515191513
  • Genre: Fiction, Historical

What you need to know before your trail

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, the 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. One of his first works set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex,

Travel Guide

Hardy’s Wessex

Wessex is of course fictional but it’s based on several places in Dorset

Hardy described his landscape “Wessex” and in Far from the Madding Crowd describes his country as the “partly real, partly dream-country” that unifies his South West England

The village of Puddletown, near Dorchester, is the inspiration for the novel’s Weatherbury. Dorchester, in turn, is said to have inspired Hardy’s Casterbridge.

True Hardy Fans should also visit Higher Bockhampton as this is where the literary man was born

Booktrail Boarding Pass Information:  Far From the Madding Crowd

Author/Guide: Thomas Hardy  Destination: “Wessex” , Dorset  Departure Time: 1874

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