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Title Page
Copyright Page
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
CHRONOLOGY: HARDY’S LIFE AND WORKS
MAP: THE WESSEX OF THE NOVELS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INTRODUCTION
A NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF THE TEXT
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
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: inquiries.
CHAPTER XI Melchester Moor: 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: a question.
CHAPTER XVI In the market-place.
CHAPTER XVII Boldwood in meditation: a visit.
CHAPTER XVIII The sheep-washing: the offer.
CHAPTER XIX Perplexity: grinding the shears: a quarrel.
CHAPTER XX Troubles in the fold: a message: return.
CHAPTER XXI The Great Barn and the sheep-shearers.
CHAPTER XXII A pleasant time: a second declaration.
CHAPTER XXIII The same night in the fir plantation.
CHAPTER XXIV The new acquaintance described.
CHAPTER XXV Scene on the verge of the hay-mead.
CHAPTER XXVI Hiving the bees.
CHAPTER XXVII The hollow amid the ferns.
CHAPTER XXVIII Particulars of a twilight walk.
CHAPTER XXIX Hot cheeks: tearful eyes.
CHAPTER XXX Blame: fury.
CHAPTER XXXI Night: horses tramping.
CHAPTER XXXII In the sun: a harbinger.
CHAPTER XXXIII Home again: a juggler.
CHAPTER XXXIV At an upper window.
CHAPTER XXXV Wealth in jeopardy: The revel.
CHAPTER XXXVI The storm: the two together.
CHAPTER XXXVII Rain: one solitary meets another.
CHAPTER XXXVIII Coming home: a cry.
CHAPTER XXXIX On Casterbridge highway.
CHAPTER XL Suspicion: Fanny is sent for.
CHAPTER XLI Joseph and his burden: “Buck’s Head”.
CHAPTER XLII Fanny’s revenge.
CHAPTER XLIII Under a tree: reaction.
CHAPTER XLIV Troy’s romanticism.
CHAPTER XLV The gurgoyle: its doings.
CHAPTER XLVI Adventures by the shore.
CHAPTER XLVII Boldwood again: the clothes.
CHAPTER XLVIII Oak’s advancement: a great hope.
CHAPTER XLIX The sheep fair: Troy holds his wife’s hand.
CHAPTER L Bathsheba talks with her outrider: advice.
CHAPTER LI Converging courses.
CHAPTER LII Momentâ horæ concurritur.1
CHAPTER LIII After the shock.
CHAPTER LIV The March following: “Bathsheba Boldwood”.
CHAPTER LV Beauty in loneliness: After all.
CHAPTER LVI A foggy night and morning: Conclusion.
Notes
APPENDIX I Preface From 1912 Wessex Edition (Macmillan), Vol. II
APPENDIX II The Surviving Draft-Fragments of Far From the Madding Crowd
APPENDIX III Chapter XVI in the Cornhill magazine
APPENDIX IV A Note on the First Illustrator of Far From the Madding Crowd: Helen Paterson
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