History & The Arts
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
...account for Bathsheba’s reckless act. Important though the descriptive detail is, if we are reading just to find out what happens next, we probably don’t really pay it a great deal of attention. But Hardy’s descriptions are worth close attention for they always contribute in various ways to the drama of the action. Novels like this really do one repay time invested...