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Far From the Madding Crowd
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Title: Far From The Madding Crowd
Author: Thomas Hardy
Release Date: February, 1994 [EBook #107] [This file was last updated on March 28, 2002]
Edition: 11a
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
by Thomas Hardy
Preface
In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd" as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English hi