FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series) (Annotated)

Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is a richly textured pastoral novel set in Wessex, the semi-imagined rural landscape that became central to his fiction. It follows the independent Bathsheba Everdene and the three men whose differing forms of love—Gabriel Oak's steadfast devotion, Farmer Boldwood's obsessive idealization, and Sergeant Troy's reckless seduction—shape her moral and e...