Bathsheba Everdene, living in the quiet rural village of Weatherbury, is indeed disrupted by the ‘madding crowd’. After shunning the first man to love her, the shepherd Gabriel Oak, she is courted by two others: the lonely and repressed farmer Boldwood, and the charming but faithless Sergeant Troy.
Book Excerpt re I could turn away from the view; and said to papa that he feared his little girl was tired as well as cold–and so spoiled all my pleasure. I looked back afterwards as papa and I drove down: he was walking by Clare’s carcole and they were laughing heartily.And that was the […]
Dealing with political issues of the time the novel was written and concentrating specifically on feminist issues, through the course this novel the heroine matures from an innocent and naïve girl to a representative of the New Woman.
Book Excerpt In his younger days he was a great sportsman and used to get up before the sun to follow his favorite pursuits of hunting and hawking, but as he grew older he spent almost all his time in reading books on chivalry and knighthood with which his library was stocked; and at last […]
Book Excerpt “And you conclude it to be a rather dreadful business?””Yes, it is.” “How?” “Oh, I don’t know. A girl usually loves the wrong man. To be poor is always bad enough, but to be in love, too, is really very dreadful. It usually finishes us–you know.” “Are you in love?” he inquired, managing […]
Follow Professor Challenger on his expedition to the Tepuyes plateau in South America where prehistoric animals and other extinct creatures still roam — side by side with prehistoric men and vicious ape-like creatures!