Hardy, Thomas,  1840-1928 <br/><br/>
Far from the madding crowd / 
Thomas Hardy ; edited by Suzanne B. Falck-Yi ; with an introduction by Simon Gatrell 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  1991 
 - xlv, 468 pages :  maps ;  19 cm 
 - World's classics .
 - World's classics .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xxxix) 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0192827820 9780192827821 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92011141 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women farmers--Fiction<br/>Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction<br/>Farm life--Fiction<br/>Farm life--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Wessex (England)--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>English fiction 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Didactic fiction.<br/>Pastoral fiction.<br/>Romance fiction.<br/>Novels.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR4745.A2  / F3 1993 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.8 
<br/><br/><label>Report. No.: </label>92011141