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

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019283391X ISBN 13: 9780192833914

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Synopsis

Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors: the seemingly commonplace, man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier, Francis Troy, and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. Her choice, and the tragedy it provokes, lie at the centre of Hardy's ambivalent story. This edition presents a new text of the novel restoring several manuscript passages never before published with the novel, and many of the 1901 revisions missing from nearly all modern versions.

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Review

- "Vital, passionate, spirited -- from the moment Bathsheba appears she is beguiling. You can denounce her faults -- she's selfish and capricious -- but it's hard not to admire her determined independence." --"Independent "
- "Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd" is the most romantic book I have ever read. I love the line where he says: "Whenever you look up, there I shall be -- and whenever I look up there will be you." It is very simple and understated, but also incredibly romantic.""" --"Independent "

"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

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"

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"

"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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019283391X
• ISBN 13: 9780192833914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 514