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Far from the Madding Crowd

By Thomas Hardy

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Cover: Cottage Garden (1894), watercolour by Helen Allingham (1848-1926) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1926)

Far from the Madding Crowd is the fourth published novel by English author Thomas Hardy; and his first major literary success. It was published on 23 November 1874. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Description of Farmer Oak—An Incident
  2. 2: Night—the Flock—an Interior—Another Interior
  3. 3: A Girl on Horseback—Conversation
  4. 4: Gabriel’s Resolve—the Visit—the Mistake
  5. 5: Departure of Bathsheba—a Pastoral Tragedy
  6. 6: The Fair—the Journey—the Fire
  7. 7: Recognition—a Timid Girl
  8. 8: The Malthouse—the Chat—News
  9. 9: The Homestead—a Visitor—Half-Confidences
  10. 10: Mistress and Men
  11. 11: Outside the Barracks—Snow—a Meeting
  12. 12: Farmers—a Rule—an Exception
  13. 13: Sortes Sanctorum—the Valentine
  14. 14: Effect of the Letter—Sunrise
  15. 15: A Morning Meeting—the Letter Again
  16. 16: All Saints’ and All Souls’
  17. 17: In the Market-Place
  18. 18: Boldwood in Meditation—Regret
  19. 19: The Sheep-Washing—the Offer
  20. 20: Perplexity—Grinding the Shears—a Quarrel
  21. 21: Troubles in the Fold—a Message
  22. 22: The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers
  23. 23: Eventide—a Second Declaration
  24. 24: The Same Night—the Fir Plantation
  25. 25: The New Acquaintance Described
  26. 26: Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead
  27. 27: Hiving the Bees
  28. 28: The Hollow Amid the Ferns
  29. 29: Particulars of a Twilight Walk
  30. 30: Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes
  31. 31: Blame—Fury
  32. 32: Night—Horses Tramping
  33. 33: In the Sun—a Harbinger
  34. 34: Home Again—a Trickster
  35. 35: At an Upper Window
  36. 36: Wealth in Jeopardy—the Revel
  37. 37: The Storm—the Two Together
  38. 38: Rain—One Solitary Meets Another
  39. 39: Coming Home—a Cry
  40. 40: On Casterbridge Highway
  41. 41: Suspicion—Fanny Is Sent for
  42. 42: Joseph and His Burden—Buck’s Head
  43. 43: Fanny’s Revenge
  44. 44: Under a Tree—Reaction
  45. 45: Troy’s Romanticism
  46. 46: The Gurgoyle: Its Doings
  47. 47: Adventures by the Shore
  48. 48: Doubts Arise—Doubts Linger
  49. 49: Oak’s Advancement—a Great Hope
  50. 50: The Sheep Fair—Troy Touches His Wife’s Hand
  51. 51: Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider
  52. 52: Converging Courses
  53. 53: Concurritur—Horæ Momento
  54. 54: After the Shock
  55. 55: The March Following—“Bathsheba Boldwood”
  56. 56: Beauty in Loneliness—After All
  57. 57: A Foggy Night and Morning—Conclusion