Introduction & Notes by Norman Vance Professor of English University of Sussex 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 & his love for & pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy & true love It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was ‘…the past was yesterday; never the day after’ & lastly of the introverted & 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 was Thomas Hardy&s first major literary success & it edited with an introduction & notes by Rosemarie Morgan & Shannon Russell in Penguin Classics Independent & spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area Her bold presence draws three very different suitors the gentleman-farmer Boldwood soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy & the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak Each in contrasting ways unsettles her decisions & complicates her life & tragedy ensues threatening the stability of the whole community The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex Hardy&s novel of swift passion & slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life & landscapes & with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships This edition based on Hardy&s original 1874 manuscript is the complete novel he never saw published & restores its full candour & innovation Rosemarie Morgan&s introduction discusses the history of its publication & the Biblical & Classical allusions that permeate the novel Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) born Higher Brockhampton near Dorchester originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer Though he saw himself primarily as a poet Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century&s major novels The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Tess of the D& Urbervilles (1891) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) & Jude the Obscure (1895) Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems & his epic drama in verse The Dynasts If you enjoyed Far from the Madding Crowd you might also like Elizabeth Gaskell&s Mary Barton & Wonderful a landscape which satisfies every stir of the imagination & which ravishes the senses& Ronald Blythe ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics Here is one of Thomas Hardy’s most popular novels soon to be released as a major motion picture in May 2015 ‘I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is love you & long for you & keep wanting you till I die’ Independent & spirited Bathsheba Everdene owns the hearts of three men Striving to win her love in different ways their relationships with Bathsheba complicate her life in bucolic Wessex – & cast shadows over their own With the morals & expectations of rural society weighing heavily upon her Bathsheba experiences the torture of unrequited love & betrayal & discovers how random acts of chance & tragedy can dramatically alter life’s course The first of Hardy’s novels to become a major literary success Far from the Madding Crowd explores what it means to live & to love ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy Far From the Madding Crowd is the story of independent beautiful & headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) who attracts three very different suitors Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts) a sheep farmer captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge) a handsome & reckless Sergeant; & William Boldwood (Michael Sheen) a prosperous & mature bachelor This timeless story of Bathsheba choices & passions explores the nature of relationships & love
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