Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardyliterary work· published 1874
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Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
Adaptations (5)
Far from the Madding Crowd has been adapted 5 times, across film and television film, from 1915 to 2015.
Far from the Madding Crowd1967 · film · 168 min · dir. John Schlesinger · IMDb ↗Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Far from the Madding Crowd1998 · television film · 54 min · dir. Nicholas Renton · IMDb ↗IMDb7.4This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her impulsive nature pushes her into a web of deceit and destruction.
Tamara Drewe2010 · film · 107 min · dir. Stephen Frears · IMDb ↗A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Far from the Madding Crowd2015 · film · 119 min · dir. Thomas Vinterberg · IMDb ↗In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
