num_pages: 434
description: Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.Introduction by Michael Slater.
language: English
title: Far From the Madding Crowd
titlecomplete: Far From the Madding Crowd
characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood,, William Boldwood, Fanny Robin, Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin, Bathsheba Everdene, Francis Troy, Gabriel Oak
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 148928
places: England, Dorset, England, Wessex, England, Dorset, England (United Kingdom),, United Kingdom, Wessex, England
publisher: Everyman's Library