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 south-west
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. This new edition retains the critical
text that restores previously deleted and revised passages.
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