Book Description
Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors: the seemingly commonplace, man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier, Francis Troy, and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. Her choice, and the tragedy it provokes, lie at the centre of Hardy's ambivalent story.
This edition presents a new text of the novel restoring several manuscript passages never before published with the novel, and many of the 1901 revisions missing from nearly all modern versions.
This work tells the story of young farmer, Gabriel Oak, and his pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature lends her to both tragedy and true love. The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Thomas Hardy, published serially and anonymously in 1874 in The Cornhill Magazine and published in book form under Hardy's name the same year. It was his first popular success. The plot centers on Bathsheba Everdene, a farm owner, and her three suitors, Gabriel Oak (a generous shepherd), Sergeant Troy (a young, handsome, and inconsiderate soldier), and William Boldwood (the owner of the neighboring farm). The contrasting relationships between Bathsheba and her suitors are a study of the many faces of love, including honest, heartfelt love and unscrupulous and manipulative adoration.
From Library Journal
Random's Modern Library is reproducing this Hardy standard as a tie-in to a Masterpiece Theater presentation and offering a quality hardcover for a reasonable price.
From AudioFile
Those who relished the recent PBS series will be happy to know that this audio version is read by Gabriel Oak himself--Nathaniel Parker. He and Thomas Hardy make a fine team. As the rustic workers bring in the harvest, or shear the sheep, or barter at the market--their lively dialogue projects pictures of nineteenth-century Wessex that are almost as vivid as the paintings of John Constable. Nathaniel Parker seems to be one of them--or all of them--as he slips naturally from one character to another, even capturing the voice of Bathsheba as she laments her disastrous marriage. It all comes together in the end as she and Gabriel prepare to live happily ever after, the only Hardy characters so blessed! J.C.
About Author
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928), the author of Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, was also an accomplished poet. Seventeen volumes of his work are available from Penguin Classics.
Rosemarie Morgan teaches at Yale University and is the president of the Thomas Hardy Association.
Shannon Russell holds a fellowship at Oxford University and is head of research for the Yale edition of Tennessee Williams's Journals.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
就题目而言,一开始联想到的无非是为什么远离,如何远离,可惜全篇结束并没有实际的远离什么,我想只有奥克和芭丝谢芭的默契与真心才是他们度过一段尘嚣。 三个男人对芭丝谢芭不管是偶遇还是玩笑基本都是一见钟情,但是三个人自身性格特点的不同使得他们对待这份爱情有截然...
评分 评分 评分摘: 哈代在《远离尘嚣》中说:“爱情、生命和人类的一切在和狂怒的宇宙紧紧地并列在一起的时候就显得微不足道了。” 长的是人生,短的是爱慕。 他在另一部小说《德伯家的苔丝》中说,“凡是有甜美的鸟歌唱的地方,也就有毒蛇嘶嘶地叫”
评分An observer must have been very close indeed to discover that the forms under the umbrella were those of Oak and Bathsheba, arm-in-arm for the first time in their lives... 这结局自然是圆满的,Oak终于和自己钦慕的女孩结婚,而Bathsheba走了许多弯路,终遇良人。...
最对的也许在最后才到来。
评分interminable descriptions of monotonous sceneries,乡村爱情需要这么文绉吗需要吗。Hardy你塑造的女人可以不那么拿无知卖萌不那么愚蠢浅薄做作虚荣吗。标题党泪奔。这本小说不该叫“远离尘嚣”,应叫“犯贱男女”(contemptibil
评分写景比写人好看
评分開始覺得Bathsheba有點賤,惹出種種事端,卻一副不是自己的錯的innocent樣。 後來慢慢讀,才意識到,這是他們每個人個性的結果。一切都是必然的。 也覺得Bathsheba和Gabriel所走的這麼多年不是冤枉路。他們倆,非要這樣,才能成為真正的愛人,懂得真正的愛情。
评分写景比写人好看
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