num_pages: 423
description: Librarian note: alternate covers for this edition can be found here and here.Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex.Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was ‘…the past was yesterday; never, the day after’, and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with ‘…a fearful sense of exposure’, when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba.The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels.
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: 148984
places: England, Dorset, England, Wessex, England, Dorset, England (United Kingdom),, United Kingdom, Wessex, England
publisher: Wordsworth Editions