Thomas Hardy, Far From The Maddening Crowd

Posted by TheBlackList on November 1, 2010 at 12:09pm

"When Farmer Oak smiles, his eyes were reduced to kinks and diverging wrinkles appear around them like the rudimentary sketch of the rising sun," Thomas Hardy, Far From The Maddening Crowd.

So vivid. I can see farmer Oak and I get to be intimately related to him as jovial and warm.

This sentence is so simple and detailed.

I read Far from the Maddening Crowd in high school, decades ago, and this is all I remember about it.

I woke up Sunday morning quoting this open line.

This is the inspiration for creating this forum.

KWASI Akyeampong

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Emma Lewis November 2, 2010 at 4:12pm

Great Bro. Kwazi. For me Dickens, a Tale of two cities "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"..
conjured up the Dickensian conditions of the peasantry in France and and horrific state of the poor in London at the time, and the need for revolution ... although Dickens was not pro revolution...
- KWASI Akyeampong > Emma Lewis November 2, 2010 at 7:16pm
  
  Thanks for your share. I use this Dickens quote quite often. However, I did not read the book, heard and read conversation based on the book. Of course, I save it in the movies.
  
  Surely is a memorable and captivating line.

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