Far from the Madding Crowd - Wordsworth Classics Special edition owner of Huxley Farm

owner of Huxley Farm

before it all

This extraordinary anthology vividly breathes life into one of the most captivating and feared magical sorceresses and will become a treasured keepsake for fans of fantasy

The romantic comedy and sometimes-serious wizard school story begins

Thirteen years later

Far from the Madding Crowd - Wordsworth Classics Special edition owner of Huxley FarmIntroduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex. Far 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. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was the past was yesterday; never, the day