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Library Book Groups > June 17 - Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

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message 1: by Marilynn (new) - rated it 4 stars

May 26, 2015 09:00AM

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Our next book is "Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy. You can find more about this classic novel here:
http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guid...

The movie based on this novel is now playing in theaters. You can view the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCm1X...

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message 2: by Marilynn (last edited Jun 17, 2015 12:55PM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Jun 17, 2015 12:55PM

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Did you know that Thomas Hardy took the title from a line in the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray? To read the poem (and copious notes if desired) go to http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/dis...
Look at line 73 to find Hardy's title.

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