Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of the south-west of England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity. The story of the wooing of Bathsheba Everdene by three suitors is...
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Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of the south-west of England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity. The story of the wooing of Bathsheba Everdene by three suitors is here presented in a critical text with a new introduction, bibliography and chronology. Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Preface -- Map of Hardy's Wessex -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Thomas Hardy -- Map: Locations in Far from the Madding Crowd -- FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD -- Appendix Unpublished 'Sheep-Rot Chapter' -- Explanatory Notes.
