Far from the Madding Crowd [antikvár]

Introduction Gabriel watched every morning for the girl's visit to the fields. Her bright eyes, her long black hair and her quick laugh became more attractive to him every day. In fact, love — that quiet thief — was slowly beginning to steal young Farmer Oak's heart. Gabriel Oak has worked hard all his Hfe and knows what he wants. And when he meets Bathsheba Everdene, he is soon sure that he wants to marry her. But Bathsheba has other ideas -beautiful and independent, she is not ready to marry yet. When Gabriel loses his farm, he knows that he has lost all hope. But 'love is a golden prison,' so when Bathsheba asks for his help on her own farm, he cannot say 'no'. Even when she falls in love with the handsome but selfish Sergeant Troy, Gabriel reflases to leave her. Is he a fool, or her only true friend? And will Bathsheba's beauty bring her happiness, or hfe-long pain and sadness? A story of hard lives and strong feelings, Far from the Madding Crowd is a book that few people can forget. Thomas Hardy was born in 1840, in Upper Bockhampton, a small village near Dorchester in the south-west of England. His father was a builder and stonecutter. Thomas was educated at local schools and then got a job in a local builder's office, where he worked for ten years. In 1861 he moved to London and studied at evening classes. He began to write stories. One of his early books was Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), a gentle, humorous picture of love and marriage in a Dorset village. The book was quite successful and he decided to become a professional writer. In 1874, he married Emma Gifford, a musician, and completed Far from the Madding Crowd, which