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Print Price: $9.95

Format:
Paperback
496 pp.
2 maps, 129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199537013

Publication date:
September 2008

Imprint: OUP UK

Far from the Madding Crowd

New Edition

Thomas Hardy
Edited by Suzanne B. Falck-Yi and Linda M. Shires

Series : Oxford World's Classics

'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.

Readership : readers of fiction and students of English Literature, the Victorian novel, Thomas Hardy, Cultural Studies, Interpretation of Fiction

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of England's greatest novelists. Most of his work is set in his native Dorset, on the south coast of England.

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