Far From the Madding Crowd: Love Is Love Is Love Whether you are of the opinion that love is a wonderful thing, love knows no boundaries, or love is blind, one fact remains constant: Love is like a snowflake—no two are ever exactly alike. In Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, the heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, has the luck (or unfortunate mishap) of falling in love not once, or even twice, but three times during the course of the novel. Far From the Madding Crowd was published in 1874 and proved to be a financial success for Hardy, who found popularity because of this well-liked story. Eventually Hardy’s humorou