Far from the Madding Crowd (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019280149X ISBN 13: 9780192801494

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2002

Synopsis

'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.' Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart. Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. This new edition retains the critical text that restores previously deleted and revised passages.

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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 --Margaret Drabble

Book Description

Thomas Hardy's timeless novel, read by Julie Christie

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019280149X
• ISBN 13: 9780192801494
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Falck-Yi Suzanne B.