Far from the madding crowd

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Title:

Author:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928, author.

Series:

Everyman's library ; 21

Everyman's Library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 21

Publication Date:

1874

Publication Information:

New York : Dodd, Mead ; New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 1874.

Physical Description:

xvi, 383 pages : ill. , 22 cm.

ISBN:

9781443440370

9780679405764

Abstract:

"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 respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart." --Bookmanager.

General Note:

Penguin classics ed. edited with an introduction and notes by Ronald Blythe.

Subject Term:

Women -- Fiction.

Women farmers -- England -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Wessex (England) -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- Fiction.

Genre:

Historical fiction