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Author(s): Hardy, Thomas
Reader(s): Parker, Jamie
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0154
Barcode: 9781843798453
Distribution Note(s):
Currently available for streaming and download only. This recording will be issued on CDs at a later time.
Currently available for streaming and download only. This recording will be issued on CDs at a later time.
Release Date: 07/2014
HARDY, T.: Far from the Madding Crowd (Unabridged)
In a remote corner of early Victorian England, where traditional practices remain untouched by time, Bathsheba Everdene stands out as a beacon of feminine independence and self-reliance. However, when confronted with three suitors, among them the dashing Captain Troy, she shows a reckless capriciousness that threatens the stability of the whole community.
Published in 1847, and an immediate best-seller, Far From the Madding Crowd established Thomas Hardy as one of Britain’s foremost novelists.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Hardy, Thomas - Author
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
|  | 1 | Chapter 1 | 06:01 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | The field he was in this morning… | 07:55 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 2 | 07:33 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | Oak's motions, though they had a quiet-energy, were slow… | 06:14 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | Farmer Oak went towards the plantation… | 04:48 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter 3 | 07:29 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | 'I wanted my hat this morning,' she went on. | 05:02 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | 'Whatever is the matter?' said Oak vacantly. | 05:13 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 4 | 06:04 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | A voice came from behind some laurel-bushes… | 05:38 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | He went forward and stretched out his arm again. | 08:39 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | Chapter 5 | 04:35 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | Gabriel then remembered that he had left the two dogs on the hill… | 07:26 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 6 | 05:51 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | The road stretched through water-meadows… | 06:21 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | Gabriel again mounted the gate, and, leaping down… | 04:45 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | Oak seized the cut ends of the sheaves, as if he were going… | 04:44 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter 7 | 07:52 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 8 | 09:00 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | Having at this moment reached the end of a wistful gaze into mid-air… | 08:03 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | 'We d' know little of her – nothing.' | 06:01 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | 'He got so much better, that he was quite godly in his later years…' | 06:06 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | 'Ye be a very old aged person, malter,' attested Jan Coggan… | 05:53 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | A few minutes later, when the remaining ones were on their legs… | 06:39 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | Chapter 9 | 05:59 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | The door opened, and a deep voice said – 'Is Miss Everdene at home?' | 06:35 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 10 | 05:24 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | Joseph Poorgrass, in the background twitched… | 03:47 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | But perhaps her air was the inevitable result of the social rise… | 04:09 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter 11 | 04:53 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | At this time some words were spoken aloud… | 06:06 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 12 | 03:41 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | Strange to say of a woman in full bloom and vigor… | 04:36 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | The information was put in this form… | 02:37 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 13 | 05:41 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | 'What fun it would be to send it to the stupid old Boldwood…' | 03:09 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 13 | Chapter 14 | 07:04 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 14 | Boldwood was listlessly noting how the frost had hardened… | 02:34 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 15 | Chapter 15 | 05:35 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 16 | 'I wonder what a farmer-woman can want with a harpsichord…' | 02:41 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | 'We've no lambing-hut here, as I used to have at Norcombe,'… | 05:52 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | 'And how Farmer James would cuss, and call thee a fool…' | 05:37 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | The door was hurriedly burst open again… | 03:39 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | Chapter 16 | 06:07 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 17 | 05:34 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter 18 | 06:10 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | Boldwood, looking into the distant meadows, saw there three figures. | 04:38 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 19 | 04:39 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | Boldwood came close and bade her good morning… | 03:43 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | Bathsheba's momentary impulse at hearing this… | 05:04 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 20 | 04:08 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | Cain departed, and Bathsheba took the handle. | 05:06 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 13 | In an instant Bathsheba's face coloured… | 03:36 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 14 | Chapter 21 | 05:22 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 15 | One of the ewes here contracted its muscles horribly… | 07:54 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | Chapter 22 | 05:57 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | Here the shearers knelt, the sun slanting in… | 06:21 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | But heartless circumstance could not leave entire Gabriel's happiness… | 04:30 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | 'That means matrimony,' said Temperance Miller… | 07:33 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 23 | 06:23 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | The sun went down in an ochreous mist… | 05:33 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | At this time of departure, when nothing more was visible… | 03:05 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 24 | 05:52 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | 'I'll unfasten you in one moment, miss,' he said… | 08:03 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 25 | 08:04 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 26 | 06:44 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | 'How – indeed?' she said, opening her eyes. | 07:34 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | 'It is an unusually good one for a man like me to possess,'… | 05:18 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 27 | 06:51 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 28 | 04:51 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | 'Now just to learn whether you have pluck enough…' | 07:21 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 29 | 07:05 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | The other day they said you were trifling with him… | 04:43 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | Oak's allusion to his own love for her lessened, to some extent… | 04:02 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 30 | 05:03 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | Liddy went towards the door. | 04:38 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 31 | 05:49 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | 'I am beyond myself about this, and am mad,' he said. | 04:49 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | 'I did not take you up – surely I did not!' she answered… | 05:44 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 13 | 'Then curse him; and curse him!' said Boldwood… | 05:02 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 14 | Chapter 32 | 05:51 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 7
| | 1 | 'What's the matter?' said Gabriel. | 05:38 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | 'We thought – ' began Gabriel. | 06:24 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 33 | 05:36 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | 'For my poor self, I always say "please God" afore I do anything,'… | 05:06 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | 'Miss Everdene and the soldier were walking about together, you say?' | 05:50 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter 34 | 08:21 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | In making this statement Boldwood's voice revealed… | 05:19 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | 'Shall I tell her I have come to give her up and cannot marry her?' | 08:08 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 35 | 05:40 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | 'Oh, Coggan,' said Troy, as if inspired by a recollection… | 03:20 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 36 | 03:58 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | So the dance began. | 03:06 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 13 | Bathsheba indignantly left the barn… | 03:29 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 14 | This complication of weathers being uncommon… | 03:34 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 15 | Gabriel glanced hopelessly at the group… | 05:36 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 8
| | 1 | Chapter 37 | 06:17 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | 'Hold on!' said Gabriel, taking the sheaf from her shoulder… | 06:03 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | 'I did at last – not at first,' he answered, somewhat surprised… | 03:54 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | Chapter 38 | 05:20 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | It is difficult to describe the intensely dramatic effect… | 03:15 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter 39 | 05:34 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | The woman, on hearing him speak, quickly looked up… | 03:11 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 40 | 04:40 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | The crutches answered well. | 05:11 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | Never was ingenuity exercised so sorely… | 04:48 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | On this much-desired spot outside the town… | 02:41 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | Chapter 41 | 03:51 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 13 | She gave a sigh of resignation. | 04:13 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 14 | 'Until to-day, when I took it from a drawer…' | 04:32 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 15 | She saw coming up the road a man like Mr Boldwood. | 05:09 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 16 | She turned herself away from him… | 04:09 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 17 | Chapter 42 | 03:44 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 9
| | 1 | The air was as an eye suddenly struck blind. | 06:09 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | 'Well, I must be on again,' said Poorgrass. | 06:11 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | Coggan looked up indefinitely at Oak… | 06:14 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | Gabriel had his reasons for thinking the latter… | 03:38 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 43 | 05:46 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | She suddenly felt a longing desire to speak to some one… | 06:54 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | 'Oh-h-h!' she said, and the silent room added length to her moan. | 06:09 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | So still he remained that he could be imagined… | 06:29 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 44 | 04:10 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | The fungi grew in all manner of positions from rotting leaves… | 05:29 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | Liddy vanished, and at the end of twenty minutes returned… | 06:40 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | Chapter 45 | 04:01 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 13 | Within were lying about stones of all sizes and designs… | 06:17 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 14 | Chapter 46 | 02:31 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 10
| | 1 | The lower row of teeth was quite washed away… | 06:05 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | Sanguine by nature, Troy had a power of eluding grief… | 05:54 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | Not being able to read, think, or work, Bathsheba asked Liddy to stay… | 04:25 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | Chapter 47 | 06:53 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 48 | 06:36 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | Being hardly in a condition to drive home as she had driven to town… | 05:24 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 49 | 07:09 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | To the eyes of the middle-aged, Bathsheba was perhaps… | 05:25 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 50 | 06:23 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | 'That's the great ruffen pushing me!' screamed a woman… | 06:12 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | And now the mild autumn sun got lower… | 05:32 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | She looked so charming and fair that his cool mood… | 06:27 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 13 | The largest refreshment booth in the fair… | 04:57 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 11
| | 1 | 'Excuse me, ma'am,' said Pennyways… | 04:23 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 51 | 05:22 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | 'I, too, am very sorry,' she said, and then checked herself. | 05:34 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | Bathsheba was in a very peculiar state of mind… | 04:08 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | 'Well, your want of love seems to me the one thing…' | 04:11 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter 52 | 04:07 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | III: Boldwood was dressing also at this hour. | 04:51 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | IV: Troy was sitting in a corner of The White Hart tavern… | 04:16 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | V: 'How do I look to-night, Liddy?' said Bathsheba… | 05:31 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | VII: 'How does this cover me?' said Troy to Pennyways… | 03:37 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 53 | 04:09 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 12 | 'I hope to God she’ll come, or this night will be nothing but misery…' | 05:55 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 13 | So the men entered the hall, which was the room selected… | 04:34 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 14 | The trimmings of her dress, as they quivered against the light… | 04:28 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 15 | 'Do you know what they mean?' the farmer asked Bathsheba… | 03:13 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 16 | Nevertheless, she did not move. | 02:50 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Disc 12
| | 1 | Chapter 54 | 05:55 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 2 | Mr. Aldritch drove at once back again up the hill to Bathsheba's | 03:42 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 55 | 04:25 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 4 | These somewhat pathetic evidences… | 05:51 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 56 | 06:27 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 6 | 'And have they done it as you wished?' said Oak. | 04:21 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 7 | On examining her heart it appeared beyond measure strange… | 04:48 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 8 | 'I am not going to emigrate, you know…' | 05:41 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 57 | 04:29 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 10 | 'Liddy.' said Bathsheba, on going to bed that night… | 02:50 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
| | 11 | Repose had again incarnadined her cheeks… | 04:07 |
Parker, Jamie (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 14:51:40