Far From The Madding Crowd

This is the annotated edition including a rare biographical essay on the life and works of the author. "Far from the Madding Crowd" has is inferior only to "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." It combines all the charm of "Under the Greenwood Tree" with more than the power and interest of "Desperate Remedies." It is the first work to prove that Mr. Hardy possesses the power of creating characters that li...