Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. Virtual Entertainment, 2016. Series: World classic books. Far from the Madding Crowd is a novel by 19th century English novelist Thomas Hardy, published in 1874. The title is apt, as the life of the book's heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, living in the quiet rural village of Weatherbury is indeed disrupted by the "madding crowd".