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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 r ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Pop Fiction | Series: Macmillan Readers Ser.
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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction
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. 'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you til ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep farmer, a handsome soldier and an older, wealthy landowner. As the men vie for her affections, she struggles to retain her independence of spirit in the face of their declarat ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her inheritance, the largest farm in the village. Her presence draws three suitors: the local farmer Boldwood, the shepherd Gabriel Oak and Sergeant Troy, the dashing soldier-seducer who declares, "All romances end in marriage".
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; Michael Slater (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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 discoversthe terrible c ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
A Hardcover Classics edition of Thomas Hardy s impassioned novel of courtship in rural life, soon to be a movie starring Carey Mulligan and Michael Sheen In Thomas Hardy s first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farm ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Tie-in Ser.
This is a special edition of Hardy's brilliant novel to tie in with the major new film starring Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenaerts, based on David Nicholls' screenplay. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everden ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to W ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Thomas Hardy; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
This story opens with a lovely, poor and proud young woman who lives with her aunt. The young woman saves the life of a farmer who subsequently falls in love with her. However, the young woman inherits a fortune and moves away.On the flip side the farmer loses everything he has and travels around the co ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd: Movie Tie-in Edition by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction
This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, "Far from the Madding Crowd" is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy's great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene- ...Show more