Far From The Madding Crowd Book Quotes. [narrating] bathsheba everdene. bathsheba. the name has always sounded strange to me. They can become fixated on people with whom they’ve had little or no contact, like celebrities.
I've grown accustomed to being on my own. ― thomas hardy, quote from far from the madding crowd “it is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” “love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.” Far from the madding crowd (1874) is thomas hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success.
Hardy was a victorian poet and novelist writing in the realist tradition.
Chapter 42 quotes the one feat alone—that of dying—by which a mean condition could be resolved into a grand one, fanny had achieved. Signet classic, new american library, 1960. All page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the penguin classics edition of far from the madding crowd published in 2003. Far from the madding crowd: