I do not need cajoling to read Thomas Hardy, but just in case you do, British National Treasure Carey Mulligan is up to the task. Far From the Madding Crowd is not usually anyone's favorite Thomas Hardy novel, nor the most popular, but it is luscious and as chock-full of repressed passions as any of the others. I went the first two minutes of this trailer thinking it was for an adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, so you can watch this video and have a pretty good sense of what Thomas Hardy is all about.

Book Trailers is a recurring post that tricks you into reading the books that inspired great movies (or just great trailers).