Far From the Madding Crowd - Wilco Classics

Hardy's works often evoke extreme reactions. His great novels are of such an exclusive class. Hardy was an acknowledged master at thoroughly involving the reader; his literary craftsmanship making the sympathetic reader as much a puppet of the novel as Hardy's characters are puppets of an indifferent or malevolent fate. Fortunately in a few of his novels the author treats the reader more kindly than his characters, as is the case in ........