# Far From the Madding Crowd

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- Book: [Far from the Madding Crowd](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-hardy/far-from-the-madding-crowd) ([Far from the Madding Crowd.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-hardy/far-from-the-madding-crowd.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-hardy), [Julie Christie](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-christie)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-384-5
- Published: 2012-04-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

With an essay by Ronald Blythe. 'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute.' Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Boldwood, seductive Sergeant Troy and devoted Gabriel - making her the object of scandal and betrayal. Vividly portraying the superstitions and traditions of a small rural community, Far from the Madding Crowd shows the precarious position of a woman in a man's world. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.