TY - BOOK AU - Hardy,Thomas AU - Falck-Yi,Suzanne B. AU - Gatrell,Simon TI - Far from the madding crowd T2 - World's classics SN - 0192827820 AV - PR4745.A2 F3 1993 U1 - 823.8 20 PY - 1991/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Women farmers KW - Fiction KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) KW - Farm life KW - Wessex (England) KW - English fiction KW - Didactic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Pastoral fiction KW - Romance fiction KW - Novels N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xxxix) N2 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/92011141-d.html ER -