Far from the Madding Crowd - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553213318 ISBN 13: 9780553213317

Publisher: Bantam Classics, 1983

Synopsis

Graced with the splendid illustrations executed by Helen Paterson for the first edition of the novel, this special Collector''s Edition of Far from the Madding Crowd also features handwritten letters and drawings by Hardy, as well as rare and intimate portraits of the author and his first wife, Emma. Here, too, readers are granted a fascinating and touching glimpse of how two great imaginative writers interact with one another: This edition reproduces the handwritten pages from Virginia Woolf''s diary in which she recounts her now-famous visit with the very aged Thomas Hardy at his home, Max Gate, in 1926.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Drabble edited The Oxford Companion to English Literature and The Genius of Thomas Hardy. Her novels include The Waterfall and The Gates of Ivory, and, most recently, The Witch of Exmoor and The Peppered Moth. She lives in England.

From the Back Cover

"It is among such communities as these that happiness will find her last refuge on earth..". Against this backdrop Hardy tells a vivid story of life in rural Wessex which centres on the independent and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene. She decides to manage the farm she has inherited and finds herself in a powerful position for a woman of the 1840s. But power brings tragic complications when she has to decide between three rival suitors.

"From the Hardcover edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553213318
• ISBN 13: 9780553213317
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 480