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Genre/Form: | Pastoral fiction Didactic fiction Love stories Fictional Work Novels Romance fiction Fiction Romans pastoraux Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Hardy; Rosemarie Morgan; Shannon Lee Russell |
ISBN: | 9780141439655 0141439653 |
OCLC Number: | 54347777 |
Awards: | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
Description: | xliv, 433 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents: | Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Preface -- Chronology: Hardy's Life and Works -- Map: The Wessex of the Novels -- Bibliographical Note -- Introduction -- A Note on the History of the Text -- FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD -- Notes -- Appendix I: Preface -- Appendix II: The Surviving Draft-Fragments of 'Far From the Madding Crowd' -- Appendix III: Chapter XVI in the 'Cornhill' magazine -- Appendix IV: A Note on the First Illustrator of 'Far From the Madding Crowd': Helen Paterson -- Glossary |
Series Title: | Penguin Classics; Penguin classics. |
Responsibility: | Thomas Hardy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemarie Morgan with Shannon Russell. |
Abstract:
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak.
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"Far from the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered."-Margaret Drabble
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