Enjoy Far from the Madding Crowd from John Ruskin, Thomas Hardy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Far from the Madding Crowd Author: John Ruskin, Thomas Hardy Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 2.83 of Total 6 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide readership and critical acclaim. 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." The book is often regarded as an early piece of feminist literature, since it features an independent woman with the courage to defy convention by running a farm herself. Although Bathsheba's passionate nature leads her into serious errors of judgment, Hardy endows her with sufficient resilience, intelligence, and good luck to overcome her youthful folly.