Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd is a novel by 19th century
English novelist Thomas Hardy. It is probably Hardy's only non-tragic novel. It has a happy end in sharp contrast to the gloom and doom at the end of
Jude the Obscure (Hardy's last novel),
The Major of Casterbridge, and
Tess of the D'Ubervilles. It might also, perhaps, be described as an early piece of
feminist literature since it deals with the life of an independent woman.