Books with title Far From the Madding Crowd

Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart. Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name Wessex to the landscape of southwest England and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility.

Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with Hardy. ("When Farmer Oak smiled, " the novel begins, "the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears. . . .")----The text is based on the authoritative Wessex Edition of 1912, revised and corrected by Hardy himself.----This edition is the companion volume to the Mobil Masterpiece Theatre WGBH television presentation broadcast on PBS. It stars Paloma Baeza as Bathsheba Everdene, Nathaniel Parker as Gabriel Oak, N

Thomas Hardy's magnificent novel of a woman's bold adventures in love. Thrown together by their desire for her, three men found their destinies intertwined: the strong and fervent Gabriel Oak: the wealthy bachelor, Boldwood: and the dashing renegade, Frank Troy.Set in an England trembling in the onrush of a new age and a new morality, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD is the master work of an artist too bold and frank for his own times--a piercing novel of male and female that has never been surpassed.

Thomas Hardy's magnificent novel of a woman's bold adventures in love. Thrown together by their desire for her, three men found their destinies intertwined: the strong and fervent Gabriel Oak: the wealthy bachelor, Boldwood: and the dashing renegade, Frank Troy...Set in an England trembling in the onrush of a new age and a new morality, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD is the master work of an artist too bold and frank for his own times--a piercing novel of male and female that has never been surpassed.