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Title: Far from the Madding Crowd

Author: Thomas Hardy

Release Date: February, 1994 [EBook #107]

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Language: English

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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

by

THOMAS HARDY

CONTENTS

Preface
I. Description of Farmer Oak--An Incident
II. Night--The Flock--An Interior--Another Interior
III. A Girl on Horseback--Conversation
IV. Gabriel's Resolve--The Visit--The Mistake
V. Departure of Bathsheba--A Pastoral Tragedy
VI. The Fair--The Journey--The Fire
VII. Recognition--A Timid Girl
VIII. The Malthouse--The Chat--News
IX. The Homestead--A Visitor--Half-Confidences
X. Mistress and Men
XI. Outside the Barracks--Snow--A Meeting
XII. Farmers--A Rule--An Exception
XIII. Sortes Sanctorum--The Valentine
XIV. Effect of the Letter--Sunrise
XV. A Morning Meeting--The Letter Again
XVI. All Saints' and All Souls'
XVII. In the Market-Place
XVIII. Boldwood in Meditation--Regret
XIX. The Sheep-Washing--The Offer
XX. Perplexity--Grinding the Shears--A Quarrel
XXI. Troubles in the Fold--A Message
XXII. The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers
XXIII. Eventide--A Second Declaration
XXIV. The Same Night--The Fir Plantation
XXV. The New Acquaintance Described
XXVI. Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead
XXVII. Hiving the Bees
XXVIII. The Hollow Amid the Ferns
XXIX. Particulars of a Twilight Walk
XXX. Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes
XXXI. Blame--Fury
XXXII. Night--Horses Tramping
XXXIII. In the Sun--A Harbinger
XXXIV. Home Again--A Trickster
XXXV. At an Upper Window
XXXVI. Wealth in Jeopardy--The Revel
XXXVII. The Storm--The Two Together
XXXVIII. Rain--One Solitary