Far From the Madding Crowd
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Far From the Madding Crowd

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Far From the Madding Crowd

About this book

"The greatest tragic writer among English novelists."-Virginia Woolf

Far from the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered."-Margaret Drabble

Far from the Madding Crowd, the fourth novel written by Thomas Hardy, is a pensive yet pastoral novel that initially appeared in serial form in the late 1800's. It has since become one of the most popular books of English literature, with its rich rhythms of rural life, beautiful and independent heroine, and romantic intrigue.

In Wessex, the novel's apocryphal region of rural southwest England, the independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has a chance encounter with a virtuous young shepherd named Gabriel Oak; He is taken by her beauty, and proposes marriage, and she refuses. Soon after, Bathsheba moves away to the town of Weatherbury, and Gabriel falls on hard times. Penniless, and roving from town to town seeking employment, he happens to come upon a fire ravaging a farm. Gabriel aids in getting the fire under control, and is stunned to discover that the farm is owned by Bathsheba. Once again, they are reunited, yet now Gabriel is employed as a farmhand. When a second suitor, a local landowner, seeks her affection the inextricable struggles of love and betrayal spins Bathsheba's life into a maze of uncontrollable frenzy and passion.

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Information

Publisher
Mint Editions
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781513266091, 9781513220901
eBook ISBN
9781513268095
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. I. Description of Farmer Oak—An Incident
  7. II. Night—The Flock—An Interior—Another Interior
  8. III. A Girl on Horseback—Conversation
  9. IV. Gabriel’s Resolve—The Visit—The Mistake
  10. V. Departure of Bathsheba—A Pastoral Tragedy
  11. VI. The Fair—The Journey—The Fire
  12. VII. Recognition—A Timid Girl
  13. VIII. The Malthouse—The Chat—News
  14. IX. The Homestead—A Visitor—Half-Confidences
  15. X. Mistress and Men
  16. XI. Outside the Barracks—Snow—A Meeting
  17. XII. Farmers—A Rule—An Exception
  18. XIII. Sortes Sanctorum—The Valentine
  19. XIV. Effect of the Letter—Sunrise
  20. XV. A Morning Meeting—The Letter Again
  21. XVI. All Saints’ and All Souls’
  22. XVII. In the Market-Place
  23. XVIII. Boldwood in Meditation—Regret
  24. XIX. The Sheep-Washing—The Offer
  25. XX. Perplexity—Grinding the Shears—A Quarrel
  26. XXI. Troubles in the Fold—A Message
  27. XXII. The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers
  28. XXIII. Eventide—A Second Declaration
  29. XXIV. The Same Night—The Fir Plantation
  30. XXV. The New Acquaintance Described
  31. XXVI. Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead
  32. XXVII. Hiving the Bees
  33. XXVIII. The Hollow Amid the Ferns
  34. XXIX. Particulars of a Twilight Walk
  35. XXX. Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes
  36. XXXI. Blame—Fury
  37. XXXII. Night—Horses Tramping
  38. XXXIII. In the Sun—A Harbinger
  39. XXXIV. Home Again—A Trickster
  40. XXXV. At an Upper Window
  41. XXXVI. Wealth in Jeopardy—The Revel
  42. XXXVII. The Storm—The Two Together
  43. XXXVIII. Rain—One Solitary Meets Another
  44. XXXIX. Coming Home—A Cry
  45. XL. On Casterbridge Highway
  46. XLI. Suspicion—Fanny Is Sent For
  47. XLII. Joseph and His Burden—Buck’s Head
  48. XLIII. Fanny’s Revenge
  49. XLIV. Under a Tree—Reaction
  50. XLV. Troy’s Romanticism
  51. XLVI. The Gurgoyle: Its Doings
  52. XLVII. Adventures by the Shore
  53. XLVIII. Doubts Arise—Doubts Linger
  54. XLIX. Oak’s Advancement—A Great Hope
  55. L. The Sheep Fair—Troy Touches His Wife’s Hand
  56. LI. Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider
  57. LII. Converging Courses
  58. LIII. Concurritur—Horae Momento
  59. LIV. After the Shock
  60. LV. The March Following—“Bathsheba Boldwood”
  61. LVI. Beauty in Loneliness—After All
  62. LVII. A Foggy Night and Morning—Conclusion
  63. A Note About the Author
  64. A Note from the Publisher