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At the beginning of the novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a beautiful young woman without a fortune. She meets Gabriel Oak, a young farmer, and saves his life one evening. He asks her to marry him, but she refuses because she does not love him. Upon inheriting her uncle's prosperous farm she moves away to the town of Weatherbury. A disaster befalls Gabriel's farm and he loses his sheep; he is forced to give up farming. He goes looking for work, and in his travels finds himself in Weatherbury. After rescuing a local farm from fire he asks the mistress if she needs a shepherd. It is Bathsheba, and she hires him. As Bathsheba learns to manage her farm she becomes acquainted with her neighbor, Mr. Boldwood, and on a whim sends him a valentine with the words "Marry me." Boldwood becomes obsessed with her and becomes her second suitor. Rich and handsome, he has been sought after by many women. Bathsheba refuses him because she does not love him, but she then agrees to reconsider her decision. That very night, Bathsheba meets a handsome soldier, Sergeant Troy. Unbeknownst to Bathsheba, he has recently impregnated a local girl, Fanny Robin, and almost married her. Troy falls in love with Bathsheba, enraging Boldwood. Bathsheba travels to Bath to warn Troy of Boldwood's anger, and while she is there, Troy convinces her to marry him. Gabriel has remained her friend throughout and does not approve of the marriage. A few weeks after his marriage to Bathsheba, Troy sees Fanny, poor and sick; she later dies giving birth to her child. Bathsheba discovers that Troy is the father. Grief-stricken at Fanny's death and riddled with shame, Troy runs away and is thought to have drowned. With Troy supposedly dead, Boldwood becomes more and more emphatic about Bathsheba marrying him. Troy sees Bathsheba at a fair and decides to return to her. Boldwood holds a Christmas, to which he invites Bathsheba and again proposes marriage; just after she has agreed, Troy arrives to claim her. Bathsheba screams, and Boldwood shoots Troy dead. He is sentenced to life in prison. A few months later, Bathsheba marries Gabriel, now a prosperous bailiff.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
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Fiction, Women farmers, Women farmers in fiction, Farm life in fiction, Farm life, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Social life and customs, Wessex (England in fiction, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, open_syllabus_project, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Wessex (england), fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Large type books, Manners and customs, Romans, nouvelles, Mœurs et coutumes, Fiction, christian, romance, general, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Single women, fiction, Fiction, family life, Rural conditions, Didactic fiction, Love stories, Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction, Pastoral fiction, Farm life -- Fiction, Women farmers -- Fiction, Wessex (England) -- Fiction, Romance fiction, Romance-language fiction, Agricultrices, Hardy, thomas , 1840-1928, Farm life--fiction, Women farmers--fiction, Triangles (interpersonal relations)--fiction, Pr4745.a2 s38 1986, 823/.8People
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Wessex (England), Dorset, England, Dorset (England), Wessex (England, WessexTimes
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Far From the Madding Crowd
1991, Knopf, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Far from the madding crowd
1986, Marshall Cavendish Partworks Ltd.
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Far from the madding crowd
1977, St. Martin's Press
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- New Wessex ed. / introd. by John Bayley ; notes by Christine Winfield.
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Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
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