Far From the Madding Crowd

Klappentext 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 the 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 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. Zusammenfassung Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of the south-west of England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity. The story of the wooing of Bathsheba Everdene by three suitors is here presented in a critical text with a new introduction, bibliography and chronology.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hardy
• Assisted by: Suzanne B. Falck-Yi (Editor), Falck-Yi Suzanne B. (Editor), Linda M. Shires (Introduction), Shires Linda M. (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.08.2009
• EAN: 9780199537013
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953701-3
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary