{"product_id":"far-from-the-madding-crowd-9780375757976","title":"Far from the Madding Crowd","description":"\u003cb\u003eFar from the Madding Crowd\u003c\/b\u003e, Hardy's passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, \"The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels.\" Introducing the fictional name of \"Wessex\" to describe Hardy's legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid picture of rural life in southwest England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardy's map of Wessex.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Drabble edited \u003cb\u003eThe Oxford Companion to English Literature\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Genius of Thomas Hardy\u003c\/b\u003e. Her novels include\u003cb\u003e The Waterfall\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Gates of Ivory\u003c\/b\u003e, and, most recently, \u003cb\u003eThe Witch of Exmoor and The Peppered Moth\u003c\/b\u003e. She lives in England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460162851090,"sku":"9780375757976","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_baf08891-ca8f-4cdc-90d6-20797e3c5703.jpg?v=1775631377","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/far-from-the-madding-crowd-9780375757976","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}