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Title:
Far From the Madding Crowd
Author: Thomas Hardy
First Published in: 1874
Far from the Madding Crowd, a novel by T. Hardy,
published 1874. The title is tation from Gray's EIegy.
in a Country Churchyard. The shepherd Gabriel Oak serves
the and spirited Bathsheba Everdene, owner' farm, with
unselfish devotion. The Sergeant Troy loves one of Bat
servants, Fanny Robin, but after a fatal derstanding
deserts her and she eventually childbirth in the
workhouse. Tiny has while married Bathsheba, but soon
begins treat her. When he hears of Fanny's disappears and
is deemed to have been dro Farmer Boldwood now obsessed
with sheba, gives a party at which he pledges sheba to
marry him some time in the future Troy reappears at the
party and Boidwi shoots him. Boldwood is tried and
prononounced insane. Gabriel and Bathsheba are at
married.
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