Book
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
- Published
- 1874
- Genre
- Classics
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Pages
- 433
- Words
- 129192
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31463.Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_26
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 9.7
- Lexile
- 1110L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 15–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 10 onwards · ages 15–18
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
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, 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. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781635961355
- ISBN-10
- 1635961351
Tags
Emotions-LoveFictionLiteraturePlaces-FarmsUnited States of America