A tale of love and loss - the first of Thomas Hardy's novels to win him widespread recognition and popularity - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in May 2015.
The film version of Far from the Madding Crowd, is released in UK cinemas on Friday 1 May 2015. Click below to view the trailer.
| Primary Genre | Classic fiction: general and literary |
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Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.
It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '…the past was yesterday; never, the day after', and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with '…a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba.
The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels.
Far from the Madding Crowd features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction, Fiction
Far from the Madding Crowd is available in Hardback, Paperback, Ebook, CD-Audio
Far from the Madding Crowd was written by Thomas Hardy and published by Wordsworth Editions an imprint of Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Far from the Madding Crowd has 400 pages
Yes it is part of Wordsworth Collector's Editions series
£8.99
