Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (Hardcover) Non-Fiction_Mind Body & Spirit four friends search for the

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Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (Hardcover) Non-Fiction_Mind Body & Spirit four friends search for theIntroduction 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