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THOMAS HARDY
THE WORLD OF THOMAS HARDY AND FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Introduction
AUTHOR’S 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
CHAPTER XLI - Suspicion-Fanny Is Sent For
CHAPTER XLII - Joseph and His Burden—Buck’s Head
CHAPTER XLIII - Fanny’s Revenge
CHAPTER XLIV - Under a Tree—Reaction
CHAPTER XLV - Troy’s Romanticism
CHAPTER XLVI - The Gurgoyle: Its Doings
CHAPTER XLVII - Adventures by the Shore
CHAPTER XLVIII - Doubts Arise—Doubts Linger
CHAPTER XLIX - Oak’s Advancement—A Great Hope
CHAPTER L - The Sheep Fair—Troy Touches His Wife’s Hand
CHAPTER LI - Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider
CHAPTER LII - Converging Courses
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VII
CHAPTER LIII - Concurritur—Horse Momento
CHAPTER LIV - After the Shock
CHAPTER LV - The March Following—“Bathsheba Boldwood”
CHAPTER LVI - Beauty in Loneliness—After All
CHAPTER LVII - A Foggy Night and Morning—Conclusion
ENDNOTES
INDEX OF PLACES IN HARDY’S WESSEX NOVELS
AN INSPIRATION FOR FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
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