Tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene, who must choose among three suitors in Wessex in the 1840s.
It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. The novel is the first to be set in Hardy's fictional county of Wessex in rural south west England.
The book finished 10th on The Guardian's list of greatest love stories of all time in 2007.The novel has been dramatised several times, notably in the Oscar-nominated 1967 film directed by John Schlesinger.
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Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Rosemarie Morgan with Shannon Russell.
Hardy revised the text extensively for the 1895 edition and made further changes for the 1901 edition.In 2003, the novel was listed at number 48 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.In 2007, the book finished 10th on the Guardian's list of ...
It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership.In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they ...
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Critical notices were plentiful and mostly positive. Hardy revised the text extensively for the 1895 edition and made further changes for the 1901 edition.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY THOMAS HARDY'S autobiography was originally published with many non - authorial passages as The Early Life of Thomas Hardy ( London , 1928 ) and The Later Years of Thomas Hardy ( London , 1930 ) under the name of his ...
APPENDIX IV A Note on the First Illustrator of Far From the Madding Crowd: Helen Paterson Helen Paterson had already illustrated several monthly instalments of Far From the Madding Crowd when she first met Hardy in 1874.
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This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1912 Wessex edition, emended to correct errors which have crept into the text from the manuscript onward.
"Who are you, then, who can so well afford to despise opinion?" "No stranger. Sergeant Troy. I am staying in this place. — There! it is undone at last, you see. Your light fingers were more eager than mine. I wish it had been the knot ...
... and floored with a piece of carper , and Bathsheba immediately found , to her confusion , that she was the single reserved individual in the tent , the rest of the crowded spectators , one and all , standing on their legs , on the ...
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardy’s map of Wessex.
Tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene as she is courted and married to three different men and relates the consequences that result when Michael Merchard sells his wife and daughter
This is a synopsis of the novel Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy. At the beginning of the novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a beautiful young woman without a fortune.
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This edition contains the original and unabridged text of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd.Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success, deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, ...