Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
514 pages
978-0-19-283391-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors: the seemingly commonplace, man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier, Francis Troy, and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. Her choice, and the tragedy it provokes, lie at the centre of Hardy's ambivalent story. This edition presents a new text of the novel restoring several manuscript passages never before published with the novel, and many of the 1901 revisions missing from nearly all modern versions.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
2 maps, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-283391-4 (9780192833914)
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Book
11/2002
Oxford University Press
€7.42
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