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Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
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—In 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
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
Chapter LIII:
Concurritur—Horae 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