Far from the madding crowd (Oxford World´s Classics) -

Thomas Hardy

Oxford

1998

468 páginas

15h 36m

ISBN-10: 019283391x

"When lovely woman stoops to folly..."

Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy´s novels to give the name os 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 ate the centre of Hardy´s ambivalent story.