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    Far From the Madding Crowd

    Feb 16, 2022 2 minutes
    by Thomas Hardy
    Jack Watkins
    ‘Hardy’s first major success, it established him as a fresh new voice in English fiction’

    I AM reminded that it was in the chapters of … that I first ventured to adopt the word “Wessex” from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictional significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom,’ wrote Thomas Hardy in a preface

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