And you definitely get some of that gloom n' doom in Far from the Madding Crowd. Thomas Hardy would eventually become famous for writing super gloomy stories like Tess of the D'Urbervillesand Jude The Obscure. This novel is more chock-full of juicy drama than a pretty English farm is full of adorable lambs. It was Madding, though, that gave him his first widespread success. When Thomas Hardy first published Far from the Madding Crowd in 1874, he hadn't yet become the really big deal he'd go on to be.
They're playing head games and drinking cider and dealing with so much internal drama that it's a wonder that their crops get planted or harvested at all. The title of Far from the Madding Crowd suggests that life is way easier once you leave the hustle and bustle of the big city behind and go to find peace in the countryside. This all goes down in the English countryside, which is supposed to be all birdies chirping and little lambs frolicking, but because of this insane foursome, devolves into insanity, dead babies, faked deaths and jealous lovers shooting people in the chest. In this novel by Thomas Hardy, we have not a love triangle but a love rectangle, where three different men vie for the love of super-pretty Bathsheba. That's Far from the Madding Crowd we're talking about. In the story a beautiful young woman has to choose between three men: one is too boring and creepy, one is too sexy and sleazy and one is juuuuuuuuust right. You remember the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
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