Far from the Madding Crowd
  • Published:
    Jun-1901 (Hardcover)
    Jan-1961 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    384
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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'The first of Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his best fiction is remembered' Margaret Drabble

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Its heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, takes up her position as a farmer on a large estate, where her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and when tragedy ensues, the stability of the whole community is threatened.

Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARIE MORGAN with SHANNON RUSSELL
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    • Jan-1961
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451523601
    • ISBN13: 9780451523600
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    • Jan-1961
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451505727
    • ISBN13: 9780451505729
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    • Jan-1961
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 045150044X
    • ISBN13: 9780451500441
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    • Jan-1961
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451513290
    • ISBN13: 9780451513298
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    • Jan-1961
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451515056
    • ISBN13: 9780451515056
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    • Jan-1961
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451521153
    • ISBN13: 9780451521156
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    • Jun-1901
    • HarperCollins
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0060117559
    • ISBN13: 9780060117559
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    • Jan-1974
    • MacMillan
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0333168801
    • ISBN13: 9780333168806
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    • Jan-1975
    • MacMillan
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0333172698
    • ISBN13: 9780333172698
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    • Jan-1975
    • MacMillan
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0333168917
    • ISBN13: 9780333168912
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    • Jul-1982
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0808509616
    • ISBN13: 9780808509615
    • Library Binding
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    • Feb-1988
    • Buccaneer Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0899666256
    • ISBN13: 9780899666259
    • Library Binding
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    • Jun-2000
    • Library of Alexandria
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1613104057
    • ISBN13: 9781613104057
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    • Nov-2000
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0679641505
    • ISBN13: 9780679641506
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    • Aug-2007
    • Penguin UK
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0141920033
    • ISBN13: 9780141920030
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    • Aug-2008
    • Oxford University Press (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0191604356
    • ISBN13: 9780191604355
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    • Sep-2008
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0553905554
    • ISBN13: 9780553905557
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    • May-2009
    • Floating Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1775411125
    • ISBN13: 9781775411123
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    • Dec-1984
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0786105275
    • ISBN13: 9780786105274
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    • Sep-1987
    • DH Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0886462223
    • ISBN13: 9780886462222
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    • Apr-1993
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0001046837
    • ISBN13: 9780001046832
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    • Dec-1995
    • Penguin Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0140860886
    • ISBN13: 9780140860887
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    • Jan-1996
    • Chivers Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1855490706
    • ISBN13: 9781855490703
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    • Feb-1997
    • Audio Book Contractors
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1556854668
    • ISBN13: 9781556854668
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    • Jun-1983
    • Ulverscroft Large Print
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0708980929
    • ISBN13: 9780708980927
    • Large Print
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    • Jul-2000
    • Harper
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0060956968
    • ISBN13: 9780060956967
    • Large Print
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    • Aug-2001
    • North Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0939495465
    • ISBN13: 9780939495467
    • Large Print
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    • Apr-2015
    • Createspace
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1506130402
    • ISBN13: 9781506130408
    • Large Print



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