Far from the Madding Crowd

Published in 1874, this Wessex novel centres on Bathsheba Everdene, who inherits a farm and determines to manage it herself. She is courted by three men: Gabriel Oak, a shepherd who has lost his own flock; William Boldwood, a well-to-do farmer unused to refusal; and Sergeant Frank Troy, a soldier whose charm conceals recklessness. The plot moves through sheep, markets, a storm, a secret entanglement, and the public consequences of a poorly chosen marriage. It is a rural story about property, pride, and sexual choice, set among farms and barracks rather than drawing rooms.

Bound in yellow-brown series binding decorated in red. Pale brown endleaves printed in dark brown. Red or brown or green slipcase.