Far from the Madding CrowdGabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart. Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Illustrated by Helen Allingham, with an Afterword by David Stuart Davies. |
Contents
Description of Farmer Oak An Incident | 11 |
Night The Flock An Interior Another | 18 |
A Girl on Horseback Conversation | 27 |
Gabriels Resolve The Visit The Mistake | 39 |
Departure of Bathsheba A Pastoral Tragedy | 51 |
The Fair The Journey The Fire | 57 |
Recognition A Timid Girl | 69 |
The Malthouse The Chat News | 75 |
At an Upper Window | 309 |
Wealth in Jeopardy The Revel | 314 |
The Storm The Two Together | 324 |
Rain One Solitary Meets Another | 333 |
Coming Home A Cry | 337 |
On Casterbridge Highway | 342 |
Suspicion Fanny is Sent For | 353 |
Joseph and his Burden Bucks Head | 366 |
The Homestead A Visitor | 98 |
IO Mistress and | 106 |
Outside the Barracks Snow A Meeting | 114 |
Farmers A Rule An Exception | 120 |
Sortes Sanctorum The Valentine | 126 |
PerplexityGrinding the Shears A Quarrel | 171 |
Troubles in the Fold A Message | 178 |
The Great Barn and the Sheepshearers | 186 |
Eventide A Second Declaration | 199 |
The Same Night The Fir Plantation | 209 |
The New Acquaintance Described | 217 |
Scene on the Verge of the Haymead | 222 |
Hiving the Bees | 233 |
The Hollow amid the Ferns | 237 |
Particulars of a Twilight Walk | 246 |
Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes | 255 |
Blame Fury | 261 |
Night Horses Tramping | 274 |
In the Sun A Harbinger | 284 |
Home Again A Trickster | 294 |
Fannys Revenge | 380 |
Under a Tree Reaction | 394 |
Troys Romanticism | 403 |
Its Doings | 409 |
Adventures by the Shore | 419 |
Doubts Arise Doubts Linger | 422 |
Oaks Advancement A Great Hope | 431 |
The Sheep Fair Troy Touches his Wifes Hand | 438 |
Bathsheba Talks with her Outrider | 456 |
Converging Courses | 466 |
Concurritur Horae Momento | 479 |
After the Shock | 494 |
The March Following Bathsheba Boldwood | 500 |
Beauty in Loneliness After All | 505 |
A Foggy Night and Morning Conclusion | 516 |
Afterword | 525 |
Further Reading | 534 |
Bibliography | 535 |
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