| Publisher |
Bottom of the Hill Publishing |
| Publication Year |
2016 |
| ISBN-13 |
9781483799933 |
| ISBN-10 |
9781483799933 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
304 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Dimensions (Cms) |
19.1 x 1.62 x 23.5 |
| Weight (grms) |
562 |
For farmers, life in Great Britain in the 1800's was a never ending struggle. For a young woman who recently inherited a successful sheep farm, it could be even more difficult. Bathsheba Everdene, sure of herself and her ability finds that this was just one of the challenges she faced. Being beautiful, admired and desired, while working side-by-side with her faithful field workers complicates her life as she proves her dedication to a successful farm, and finds love and contentment.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840, the eldest of four children. At the age of sixteen he became an apprentice architect but continued to develop his classical education by studying between the hours of four and eight each morning. With encouragement from Horace Moule of Queens’ College Cambridge, he began to write fiction. His first published novel was Desperate Remedies in 1871. Thus began a series of increasingly dark novels, all set within the rural landscape of his native Dorset. Such was the success of these early works, which included A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), that he gave up his work as an architect to concentrate on his writing. However, he had difficulty publishing Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1889) and was forced to make changes in order for it to be judged suitable for family readers. This, coupled with the stormy reaction to the negative tone of Jude the Obscure (1895), prompted Hardy to abandon writing novels altogether and he concentrated on poetry for the rest of his life. He died in January 1928.
Thomas Hardy
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