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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xxxix)
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