Far from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141439653 ISBN 13: 9780141439655

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

'The first of Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his best fiction is remembered' Margaret Drabble

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Its heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, takes up her position as a farmer on a large estate, where her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and when tragedy ensues, the stability of the whole community is threatened.

Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARIE MORGAN with SHANNON RUSSELL

About this title

Review:

"Far from the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note
for which his fiction is best remembered."
-Margaret Drabble

Book Description:

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14–18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141439653
• ISBN 13: 9780141439655
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Russell Shannon