Far from the Madding Crowd

Opening of the book

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1874, First Edition; illustrated.

107 1895, Second Edition, extensively revised by Thomas Hardy.

Far from the Madding

Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Contents

PREFACE

Chapter I. Description of Farmer Oak—An Incident

Chapter II. Night—The Flock—An Interior—Another Interior

Chapter III. A Girl on Horseback—Conversation

Chapter IV. Gabriel’s Resolve—The Visit—The Mistake

Chapter V. Departure of Bathsheba—A Pastoral Tragedy

Chapter VI. The Fair—The Journey—The Fire

Chapter VII. Recognition—A Timid Girl

Chapter VIII. The Malthouse—The Chat—News

Chapter IX. The Homestead—A Visitor—Half-Confidences

Chapter X. Mistress and Men
Chapter XI. Outside the Barracks—Snow—A Meeting
Chapter XII. Farmers—A Rule—An Exception
Chapter XIII. Sortes Sanctorum—The Valentine
Chapter XIV. Effect of the Letter—Sunrise
Chapter XV. A Morning Meeting—The Letter Again
Chapter XVI. All Saints’ and All Souls’
Chapter XVII. In the Market-Place
Chapter XVIII. Boldwood in Meditation—Regret
Chapter XIX. The Sheep-Washing—The Offer
Chapter XX. Perplexity—Grinding the Shears—A Quarrel
Chapter XXI. Troubles in the Fold—A Message
Chapter XXII. The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers
Chapter XXIII. Eventide—A Second Declaration
Chapter XXIV. The Same Night—The Fir Plantation
Chapter XXV. The New Acquaintance Described
Chapter XXVI. Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead
Chapter XXVII. Hiving the Bees
Chapter XXVIII. The Hollow Amid the Ferns
Chapter XXIX. Particulars of a Twilight Walk
Chapter XXX. Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes
Chapter XXXI. Blame—Fury
Chapter XXXII. Night—Horses Tramping
Chapter XXXIII. In the Sun—A Harbinger
Chapter XXXIV. Home Again—A Trickster
Chapter XXXV. At an Upper Window
Chapter XXXVI. Wealth in Jeopardy—The Revel
Chapter XXXVII. The Storm—The Two Together
Chapter XXXVIII. Rain—One Solitary Meets Another
Chapter XXXIX. Coming Home—A Cry
Chapter XL. On Casterbridge Highway

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