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» 43 más BBC Big Read (62) Unread books (45) Books Read in 2020 (152) Top Five Books of 2014 (188) Books Read in 2015 (229) Top Five Books of 2013 (751) A Novel Cure (160) Books Read in 2016 (1,859) BBC Big Read (56) Books Read in 2022 (1,373) Books Read in 2010 (49) Ambleside Books (266) 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (258) Books Read in 2021 (3,622) Read the book and saw the movie (1,087) Victorian Period (25) Love and Marriage (45) 1870s (4) 19th Century (170) Books I've read (28) Elegant Prose (68) Fate vs. Free Will (39) Read These Too (103) Books on my Kindle (80) Tagged 19th Century (34) Country Life (3) Women's reading list (29) No hay Conversaciones actualmente sobre este libro. Re-reading this book after several decades and I really, really enjoyed it. Wonderful descriptive passages, great characters with depth and subtleties and a great commentary on love and pride and vanity and need vs. want. Gabriel Oak is such a wonderful character. Bathsheba is infuriating but oh-so-real and you root for her despite herself. Boldwood, Troy, Fanny are all compelling as are the cast of characters from the farm. I'm giving it a 4-1/2 because I'm very stingy with 5s. Quite often I find classics can be tedious to read - the long winded and passive nature of the prose can make these works quite a slog. Not with FFTMC. Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, full of vivid characters and an evocatively described picturesque setting, contrasting with the often gritty plot. Bathsheba is a character who you're not sure if you support her or want her to suffer(!), but she actually feels like a modern character - an independent, spirited woman, flirting with different men (leading them on just a bit!). She wants the attention from the guys - even if she doesn't actually want to be with them. Ultimately this leads to issues for her later on in the book. Overall, a great book, well worth a read. I initially had trouble getting into the rhythm of reading "Far From the Madding Crowd." When I got the "hang of Hardy," I really enjoyed reading the book. Miss Bathseba Everdene "scarcely knew the divinity’s name, Diana was the goddess whom Bathsheba instinctively adored. That she had never, by look, word, or sign, encouraged a man to approach her – that she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation in renouncing the simplicity of a maiden existence to become the humbler half of an indifferent matrimonial whole – were facts now bitterly remembered." After three men wanted to marry her, and one did, we were given the stories intertwined with that statement. They are stories that only Thomas Hardy can tell. If you need a heroine, I give you Bathseba. "Deeds of endurance which seem ordinary in philosophy are rare in conduct, and Bathsheba was astonishing all around her now, for her philosophy was her conduct, and she seldom thought practicable what she did not practise. She was of the stuff of which great men’s mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises." SPOILER ALERT... OK, as we suspect at the outset, the good guy gets the girl in the end. We could have cut to the chase and had these two married within hours of meeting each other as seems to be the custom in his stories... but then we'd be deprived of a great read.. Hardy as always, tells a good story, full of interesting characters in a wonderful rural setting. And such a way with words.. That's three in a row after Tess and the Mayor and now onto the next.. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las series del editorDoubleday Dolphin (C75) — 16 más El cercle de Viena (34) Limited Editions Club (S:26.08) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2013) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2012-04) Contenida enThe Collected Novels: Volume I (Modern Library: Far from the Madding Crowd ∙ The Return of the Native ∙ The Mayor of Casterbridge) por Thomas Hardy THOMAS HARDY (OMNIBUS: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE TESS OF THE URBERVILLES THE WOODLANDERS WESSEX TALES) por Thomas Hardy Está renarrado enTiene la adaptaciónAparece abreviada enOne hundred best novels condensed: 3 of 4 see note: Adam Bede; Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Don Quixote; East Lynne; Count of Monte Cristo; Paul and Virginia; Tom Brown's School Days; Waverley; Dombey and Son; Romola; Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Last of the Mohicans; Wreck of the "Grosvenor"; Right of Way; Coniston; Far from the Madding Crowd; Woman in White; Deemster; Waterloo; Hypatia; Kidnapped; Oliver Twist; Gil Blas; Peg Woffington; Virginians por Edwin Atkins Grozier InspiradoTiene como guía de estudio a
Gabriel Oak es un pastor prometedor de veintiocho años de edad. Con los ahorros de una vida frugal, arrienda una granja de ovejas. Luego se enamora de una recién llegada, ocho años más joven, Bathsheba Everdene, una joven orgullosa y bella, algo vanidosa, que llega a vivir con su tía, la señora Hurst No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Bathsheba Everdene is a complicated woman in a world where women were so often portrayed as one-dimensional. She carries with her some of the baggage of Victorian society and Hardy has not freed her from that, but that is what makes her realistic and substantial. Troy, who might have been a cliche, deviates from that in his reaction to the death of Fanny Robin and becomes a study in the worthlessness of an idle man. Boldwood represents unhealthy obsession in its worst form and his pursuit of Bathsheba is totally destructive its nature. It is only Gabriel Oak who represents man in harmony with nature, self and the world of other people. Oak is that indeed, an oak among trees of much lesser strength.
Far From the Madding Crowd seems to have been written before Hardy's cynicism has taken full root. He still believes there are paths that lead to happiness and success. In contrast with Jude this is a very upbeat tale. But even here, nothing in life comes easily. Every one of these characters experiences great difficulties both financially and emotionally and all are humbled by the events of their lives.
I thoroughly enjoyed this read and was left with a sense of satisfaction at the end. Having previously read it as an adolescent, I feel I brought a different understanding to the story this time around. (