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Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Description of Farmer Oak — An Incident
  3. 3Chapter II — Night — The Flock — An Interior — Another Interior
  4. 4Chapter III — A Girl on Horseback — Conversation
  5. 5Chapter IV — Gabriel’s Resolve — The Visit — The Mistake
  6. 6Chapter V — Departure of Bathsheba — A Pastoral Tragedy
  7. 7Chapter VI — The Fair — The Journey — The Fire
  8. 8Chapter VII — Recognition — A Timid Girl
  9. 9Chapter VIII — The Malthouse — The Chat — News
  10. 10Chapter IX — The Homestead — A Visitor — Half-Confidences
  11. 11Chapter X — Mistress and Men
  12. 12Chapter XI — Outside the Barracks — Snow — A Meeting
  13. 13Chapter XII — Farmers — A Rule — An Exception
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Sortes Sanctorum — The Valentine
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Effect of the Letter — Sunrise
  16. 16Chapter XV — A Morning Meeting — The Letter Again
  17. 17Chapter XVI — All Saints’ and All Souls’
  18. 18Chapter XVII — In the Market-Place
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Boldwood in Meditation — Regret
  20. 20Chapter XIX — The Sheep-Washing — The Offer
  21. 21Chapter XX — Perplexity — Grinding the Shears — A Quarrel
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Troubles in the Fold — A Message
  23. 23Chapter XXII — The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Eventide — A Second Declaration
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — The Same Night — The Fir Plantation
  26. 26Chapter XXV — The New Acquaintance Described
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Hiving the Bees
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — The Hollow Amid the Ferns
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Particulars of a Twilight Walk
  31. 31Chapter XXX — Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Blame — Fury
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — Night — Horses Tramping
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — In the Sun — A Harbinger
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — Home Again — A Trickster
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — At an Upper Window
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — Wealth in Jeopardy — The Revel
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — The Storm — The Two Together
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — Rain — One Solitary Meets Another
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — Coming Home — A Cry
  41. 41Chapter XL — On Casterbridge Highway
  42. 42Chapter XLI — Suspicion — Fanny Is Sent For
  43. 43Chapter XLII — Joseph and His Burden — Buck’s Head
  44. 44Chapter XLIII — Fanny’s Revenge
  45. 45Chapter XLIV — Under a Tree — Reaction
  46. 46Chapter XLV — Troy’s Romanticism
  47. 47Chapter XLVI — The Gurgoyle: Its Doings
  48. 48Chapter XLVII — Adventures by the Shore
  49. 49Chapter XLVIII — Doubts Arise — Doubts Linger
  50. 50Chapter XLIX — Oak’s Advancement — A Great Hope
  51. 51Chapter L — The Sheep Fair — Troy Touches His Wife’s Hand
  52. 52Chapter LI — Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider
  53. 53Chapter LII — Converging Courses
  54. 54Chapter LIII — Concurritur — Horæ Momento
  55. 55Chapter LIV — After the Shock
  56. 56Chapter LV — The March Following — “Bathsheba Boldwood”
  57. 57Chapter LVI — Beauty in Loneliness — After All
  58. 58Chapter LVII — A Foggy Night and Morning — Conclusion

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