Removed from the Madding Crowd (Oxford World’s Classics)

‘I shall do one factor on this life – one factor for sure – that’s, love you, and lengthy for you, and preserve wanting you until I die.’

Gabriel Oak is just one of three suitors for the hand of the attractive and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He should compete with the dashing younger soldier Sergeant Troy and respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And whereas their fates rely on the selection Bathsheba makes, she discovers the horrible penalties of an inconstant coronary heart.

Removed from the Madding Crowd was the primary of Hardy’s novels to offer the identify of Wessex to the panorama of south-west England, and the primary to realize him widespread recognition as a novelist. Set towards the backdrop of the unchanging pure cycle of the 12 months, the story each upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly fashionable sensibility. This new version retains the essential textual content that restores beforehand deleted and revised passages.

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