Far from the Madding Crowd
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Paperback. Pub Date :2010-07-08 Pages: 480 Language: English Publisher: Collins Classics HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved. essential classics.Set in Hardys evocative Wessex countryside. Bathsheba is pursued by three very different suitors.The reliable and humble Gabriel Oak. the vain and impetuous Troy and the reserved yet determined Boldwood.With the morals of rural society weighing heavily upon her. it is through these relationships that Bathsheba experiences the torture of unrequited love and betrayal and discovers how random acts of chance and tragedy can alter the pathway of a life dramatically.
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Paperback. Pub Date :2010-07-08 Pages: 480 Language: English Publisher: Collins Classics HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved. essential classics.Set in Hardys evocative Wessex countryside. Bathsheba is pursued by three very different suitors.The reliable and humble Gabriel Oak. the vain and impetuous Troy and the reserved yet determined Boldwood.With the morals of rural society weighing heavily upon her. it is through these relationships that Bathsheba experiences the torture of unrequited love and betrayal and discovers how random acts of chance and tragedy can alter the pathway of a life dramatically.
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