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Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd was published serially in 1874 and is ranked as a Victorian classic. It is the story of a woman farmer and her three suitors. Author Virginia Woolf commented that this book “must hold its place among the great English novels.” It has the distinction of being Hardy’s only novel to offer readers a happy ending.

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