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From the book:WHEN Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, exten- ding upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgment, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to post- poning, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, - that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
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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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1986, Marshall Cavendish Partworks Ltd.
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1977, St. Martin's Press
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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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