Far from the Madding Crowd (Worlds Classics)

Thomas Hardy

ISBN 10: 0192827820 / ISBN 13: 9780192827821

Published by Oxford Paperbacks, 1993

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Seller Inventory # CHL2547987

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Far from the Madding Crowd (Worlds Classics)
• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192827820
• ISBN 13: 9780192827821
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

About this title

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, restoring several manuscript passages never before published with the novel, and many of the 1901 revisions missing from nearly all modern versions.

Synopsis

"Far From The Madding Crowd" was the first of Hardy's novels to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. This edition presents a new text of the novel restoring several manuscript passages never before published with the novel, and many of the revisions missing from nearly all modern versions.