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.
- | Author: Thomas Hardy, Paula Benitez
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Dec 21, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 316 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1541242246
- | ISBN-13: 9781541242241