TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hardy, Thomas
TI  - Far from the madding crowd  
SN  - 0333408136
U1  - 823.8 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - English literature- Fiction
KW  - Women farmers
KW  - England--Wessex
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - England
KW  - English fiction
KW  - England--Dorset
N1  - Introduction by James Gibson
Notes by Christine Winfield
N2  - 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
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