Far from the Madding Crowd（远离尘嚣）

This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1912 Wessex Edition,emended to correct errors that have crept into the text from the manu-script onwards and to incorporate revisions that Hardy made in his "study copy" of the novel and in his marked printer's copy and pageproofs for a Harper and Brothers "sixpenny edition" of 190 I, whenever these revisions can confidently be judged to represent Hardy's final de-liberate intention. The resulting text includes revisions by Hardy that have never before appeared in a modern edition. The novel is fully an-notated and is accompanied by Hardy's map of Wessex and a simplified map of the landscape of Far from the MaddbN Crou,d. Textual notes in-clude a list of emendations, examples of variant readings from the man-uscript to the Wessex Edition, and a discussion of the choice of copytext. The textual history of the novel is traced in extracts from studies by Richard Little Purdy and Simon GatrelI.
Background and source materials include extracts from correspon-dence and contemporary reviews. Twentieth-century criticism is repre-sented by Howard Babb, Roy Morrell, Alan Friedman, J. Hillis Miller,Michael Millgate, Penelope Vigar, Peter Casagrande, and Ian Gregor.
作者简介：
　　THE EDITOR: ROBERT C. SCIIWEIK is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Eng-lish at the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, and a vice presi-dent of the Thomas Hardy Society (UK) and the international Hardy Associa-tion. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Trier, Germany, and Stockhohn University, Sweden, and a Fcllow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright-IIays Pro-gram. He is co-author of Reference Sources in English and American Lite~ture and Hart Crane: A Descriptive Bibliogphy; contributor to the Cambridge Com panion to Thomas Hard)'; editor of Wathering Heights; and author of articles on Itardy, Robert Browning, J. S. Mill, and aspects of cultural history

Graced with the splendid illustrations executed by Helen Paterson for the first edition of the novel, this special Collector's Edition of Far from the Madding Crowd also features handwritten letters and drawings by Hardy, as well as rare and intimate portraits of the author and his first wife, Emma. Here, too, readers are granted a fascinating and touching glimpse of how two great imaginative writers interact with one another: This edition reproduces the handwritten pages from Virginia Woolf's diary in which she recounts her now-famous visit with the very aged Thomas Hardy at his home, Max Gate, in 1926. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Preface
I Description of Farmer Oak-An Incident
II Night The Flock An Interior Another Interior
III A Girl on Horseback-Conversation
IV Gabriel's Resolve-The Visit The Mistake
V Departure of Bathsheba-A Pastoral Tragedy
VI The Fair-The Journey-The Fire
VII Recognitioni-A Timid Girl
VIII The Malthouse-The Chat-News
IX The Homestead A Visitor-Half-Confidences
X Mistress and Men
XI Outside the Barracks-Snow A Meeting
XII Farmers A Rule-An Exception
XIII Sortes Sanctorum-The Valentine
XIV Effect of the Letter-Sunrise
XV A Morning MeetingiThe Letter Again
XVI All Saints' and All Souls'
XVtI In the Market-Place
XVIII Boldwood in Meditation-Regret
XIX The Sheep-Washing-The Offer
XX Perplexity-Grinding the Shears~A Quarrel
XXI Troubles in the Fold~A Message
XXII The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers
XXIII Eventide-A Second Declara[ion
XXlV The Same Night-The Fir Plantation
XXV The New Acquaintance Described
XXVI Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead
XXVII Hiving the Bees
XXVIII The Hollow amid the Ferns
XXIX Particulars of a Twilight Walk
XXX Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes
XXXI Blame-Fury
XXXII Night-Horses Tramping
XXXIII In the Sun A Harbinger
XXXIV Home Again A Trickster
XXXV At an Upper Window
XXXVI Wealth in Jeopardy-The Revel
XXXVII The Storm-The Two Together
XXXVIII Rain-One Solitary Meets Another
XXXIX Coming Home A Cry