Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy(Macmillan students’ Hardy)

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(Macmillan students’ Hardy) Paperback. 

The “Macmillan students’ Hardy” likely points to either a graded reader adapted for English language learners or an edition aimed at students studying the work. 

528 pages

Independent and 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 and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and 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 and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.