Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
For the first time since its publication in 1874, this volume presents the text and illustrations of the first edition of Far from the Madding Crowd, a definitive work of nineteenth-century literature and the novel that made Thomas Hardy famous. It includes in footnotes all the revisions that Hardy made to the work, both in manuscript and serial, before 1874 and in numerous subsequent editions. A carefully-researched, accessibly-written introduction examines in detail the successive stages in Hardy's initial inscription and subsequent adjustments to the work from 1873 to the 1920s, and includes analysis of contemporary reviews, as well as a previously unpublished account of the relationship between the novel and George Eliot's Middlemarch. Appendices include discarded manuscript fragments, a discussion of the environments of the novel and consideration of the work of the compositors who first set the novel in type.
Simon Gatrell (1965) is Professor of English at the University of Georgia in Athens. Included amongst his many publications are Under the Greenwood Tree (2019), in this series, and a 1983 edition of Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108475051 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108475051 |
| Title | Far from the Madding Crowd |
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| Series | The Cambridge Edition Of The Novels And Stories Of Thomas Hardy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2025-11-20 |
| Number of pages | 960 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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