Far From the Madding Crowd

Far from the mMadding crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of hardy`s wessex novels. It tells the story of the yong farmer gabriel oak and his love form and pursuit of the elusive Bthesheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and rtue love.It tells of the dashing Sergand Troy whose rakish philospiy of life was `...the past was yesterday; the fature , tmorrow; never, teh dat after `, and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr. Boldwood, whose love fills him with `...a feartul sense of exposure`, whwn hi first sets eyes on bathsheba.The background to this compelling stroy is teh majesty of the wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novel.