Elizabeth's review
Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth's review
Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth's review
rating:
I enjoyed this book. The funny thing is I got a little confused about when Hardy was writing (I thought he was earlier), and I was so impressed with his narrative style for the time period. Ends up I was between 50 to 100 years off on the time period.
I pretty much read the book for the plot, but after I finished it, I read a comment on the back of the book cover from 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.”
I was so surprised by this comment from a woman whom I consider to be one of the leading feminist writers. Having read Woolf's female characters, I can't help but wonder what she thought of Bathsheba Everdeen (the main female character of the book). To me, Bathsheba was like that popular girl in high school- idealized by all the boys around her, but Bathsheba ...more
I pretty much read the book for the plot, but after I finished it, I read a comment on the back of the book cover from 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.”
I was so surprised by this comment from a woman whom I consider to be one of the leading feminist writers. Having read Woolf's female characters, I can't help but wonder what she thought of Bathsheba Everdeen (the main female character of the book). To me, Bathsheba was like that popular girl in high school- idealized by all the boys around her, but Bathsheba ...more
