{"id":19940,"date":"2014-12-22T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/?p=19940"},"modified":"2014-12-22T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:27:50","slug":"free-kindle-book-editors-picks-thomas-hardy-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/2014\/12\/22\/free-kindle-book-editors-picks-thomas-hardy-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Kindle book editor’s picks: Thomas Hardy edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Hardy\u00a0(1840 \u2013 1928) was an English novelist and poet. He tops today’s Buffet with Far From the Maddening Crowd,<\/em> regarded as one of the finest novels of the 19th Century. It’s a\u00a0classic tale of a woman brave enough to defy convention.\u00a0The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene and the devoted shepherd, obsessed farmer, and dashing soldier who vie for her favor move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution and the encroachment of modern life.<\/p>\n

\"\"This story was adapted for a 1967 film starring\u00a0Julie Christie, and a new version is slated for release in 2015 starring\u00a0Carey Mulligan.<\/p>\n

Most of Hardy’s fictional works \u2013 initially published as serials in magazines \u2013 were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. They explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.<\/p>\n

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Far from the Madding Crowd<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Literary Fiction > Classics<\/div>\n
Author: Thomas Hardy<\/div>\n

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