Far from the madding crowd
By: Thomas Hardy
Edition: 1998 Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Social life and customs; Women farmers; Fiction
Description: Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction.

The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with Hardy.
Notes: "The companion edition to the Mobil Masterpiece Theatre presentation"--Jacket.