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by Thomas Hardy (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Everyman's Library; Reissue edition (Sep 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0679405763
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679405764
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 3.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book with fantastic characters!, 13 Jul 2003
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This review is from: Far from the Madding Crowd (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
I thought that Far From the Madding Crowd was a really good book. It was the first novel by Thomas Hardy that I had read and it encouraged me to read some more of his works.
It is my favourite novel at the moment. I liked it so much because of the fantastic way in which characters are created and established. They are given such strong personalities, like Bathsheba Everdene, that it helps you become swept up in the action.
Far From the Madding Crowd is a novel about a country romance. A beautiful and interesting young woman is caught in a love triangle with three very different men. The first is the honourable and steady Gabriel Oak, who loves Bathsheba and is obviously fated to be with her, even though he seems quite her opposite. There is Farmer Bolwood who becomes obsessed with Bathsheba after she sends him a valentine, he is upstanding yet passive and we watch him drive painfully on to his undeserved end. Then there is the debonare Sargent Troy, who wins womans hearts and breaks them without thought.
This is a novel about life in the country, and how maddening it can be. It follows a magnificent set of characters, set in the beautiful place of Wessex, Hardy's imaginative countryside of England.
My favourite thing about this novel is how it centres on a woman. (A rare thing in the 19th century.) And a woman who is given the power to make her own descisions, be in charge of her money, and given sexual power. Bathsheba Everdene is a wonderful creation, up there with the best of 19th century fictions heroines. As complex as Madame Bouvary, innocent like Tess and tragic like Anna Karenia.
I reccomend this novel to anyone who is a fan of Thomas Hardy, enjoys romance novels or wants to gain a fresh view of England in the 19th century.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A True British Classic, 5 Jun 2001
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This review is from: Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
Although I had previously seen the television version some years ago, it was only recently that I read the novel. Spurred on by reading 'Return of the Native' for A Level (another fascinating read), I fell for the [non] love affair between Bathsheba and Gabriel Oake immediately. 'Far from the Madding Crowd' has tragic love, unhappy marriages, lust, death, murder, estrangement and so much more. Unlike most of Hardy's other novels, this one has a happy ending, although you have to go through the bad stuff holding Bathsheba's hand before you arrive there.

Don't be put off because it's an old book, it just might surprise you.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Had to read it, not all bad, 27 Dec 2004
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This review is from: Far from the Madding Crowd (Classic Fiction) (Audio CD)
I had to read this book for GCSE english, I read it once but as I am a slow reader I had lost the plot by the time the end was reached, so then I went on to purchase this Audio Book and it really was a God send, the plot and the characters came to life, and it turns out the story isnt half bad.
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