Far from the Madding Crowd

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"Presenting the first-edition text of Far from the Madding Crowd for the first time since its 1874 publication, this volume includes every revision Hardy made over more than 40 years, an introduction containing new material about Hardy's relationship with George Eliot, and numerous appendices detailing his creative process"--

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Introduction; Abbreviations; Notes to the edited text; Far From the Madding Crowd; Apparatus: Variants in punctuation and styling; End-of-line hyphenation in the edited text; Editorial emendations in the edited text; Appendices: A. The preface to the novel 1894-1912; B. The manuscript of the leaves excised from the Yale manuscript; C. The draft chapter detailing sheep-rot; D. Detailed analysis of the leaves of the Yale manuscript; E. The establishment of and revisions to the locations of the action; F. Statistical analysis of the primary compositors of the Cornhill episodes; G. The serial episodes; H. The vignette initials from Cornhill and the frontispieces for the two collected editions; I. Bibliographical details; Explanatory notes.