It is also where Hardy wrote his 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd.

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Most of the action, of course, happens far from the madding crowd of the Westin St.

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The film is based on Posy Simmonds' comic strip, a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd.

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Also thanks to the internet, people can now live far from the madding crowd and yet remain abreast of its ignoble strife.

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It also featured in Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd.

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Though not so private as his architectural counterpart, the Dutch-born "plantsman" (as he humbly calls himself) is also something of an ascetic, living and working far from the madding crowd in a bucolic retreat.

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But for Jeff Rosen, the dream life is being a small-town entrepreneur--and doing it in beautiful Ojai, far from the madding L.A. crowd.

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