Thomas Hardy was an English writer and poet in the Romantic era.  Hardy was greatly influenced by Charles Dickens and William Wordsworth, and he went on to write critically acclaimed classics like Far From the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d’Ubervilles.
Far from the Madding Crowd is one of Hardy’s greatest novels and has been made into several films. The story is full of twists and turns, romance and revenge as men fight for Bathsheba Everdene.