{"product_id":"9781840228281","title":"Far from the Madding Crowd","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Thomas Hardy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 31 August 2022 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Collector's Editions' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e138 x 186 x 34mm | 390g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was ‘…the past was yesterday; never, the day after’, and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with ‘…a fearful sense of exposure’, when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Hardy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56153671467333,"sku":"9781840228281","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781840228281.jpg?v=1762272373","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781840228281","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}