Far from the Madding CrowdHardy's first Wessex novel, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award winning Coralie Bickford Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design 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