Far from the Madding Crowd

by Jennifer Bassett, Howard Barbour, Janet Cameron

In Thomas Hardy's novel, rural life can be as chaotic as city life. Gabriel Oak's world is turned upside down when a shepherd drives his flock off a cliff, causing him to lose his farm. He relocates and becomes a shepherd on Bathsheba Everdene's estate, where his practical experience and frugality prove more dependable than Bathsheba's city-influenced independence.

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About the author

Jennifer Bassett has been a teacher, teacher trainer, editor, and materials writer, and has taught in England, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. She is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, and has written more than twenty original and retold stories for the series, including The Phantom of the Opera, One-Way Ticket, The President's Murderer, and William Shakespeare. Two of her adaptations, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Love Among the Haystacks, have won Language Learner Literature Awards, and three of her other titles have been finalists for the Awards. She has created a new sub-series called Bookworms World Stories, which are collections of short stories written in English from around the world. She has also written original stories for the English Today Readers and Storylines series. Jennifer is series co-adviser, with H.G. Widdowson, of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, volumes of unadapted short stories for advanced learners.