At a glance: "Far from the Madding Crowd".

*Genre: Novel.

*Writer: Thomas Hardy.

*First Publication: In a serial form in 1873-                                     74 in a periodical, called                                     "Cornhill Magazine".
*First Publication in Book Form:1874.

*The Title: The title of the novel is taken                            from Thomas Gray's famous                              "Elegy, Written in a Country                               Churchyard":
                 " Far from the madding crowd's                         ignoble strife,/ Their sober
                   wishes never learn'd to stray;/                           Along the cool sequester'd vale                         of  life;/ They kept the noiseless                       tenor of their way."

*Important characters:
                             1.Bathsheba Everdene.                                       2.Gabriel Oak.
                             3.Sergeant Troy.
                             4.Farmer Boldwood.
                             5.Fanny Robin.