Far from the madding crowd / Thomas Hardy ; edited by Suzanne B. Falck-Yi ; with an introduction by Simon Gatrell
Material type: TextSeries: World's classicsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991Description: xlv, 468 pages : maps ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0192827820
- 9780192827821
- 823.8 20
- PR4745.A2 F3 1993
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Books | Centeral Library First floor - Languages | 823.8 H.T.F 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2029 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xxxix)
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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