Far from the Madding Crowd

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction

Authors: Thomas Hardy In Year : 1874

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Far from the Madding Crowd

01 - Description of Farmer Oak--An Incident
02 - Night--The Flock--An Interior--Another Interior
03 - A Girl on Horseback--Conversation
04 - Gabriel's Resolve--The Visit--The Mistake
05 - Departure of Bathsheba--A Pastoral Tragedy
06 - The Fair--The Journey--The Fire
07 - Recognition--A Timid Girl
08 - The Malthouse--The Chat--News
09 - The Homestead--A Visitor--Half-Confidences
10 - Mistress and Men
11 - Outside the Barracks--Snow--A Meeting
12 - Farmers--A Rule--An Exception
13 - Sortes Sanctorum--The Valentine
14 - Effect of the Letter--Sunrise
15 - A Morning Meeting--The Letter Again
16 - All Saints' and All Souls'
17 - In the Market-Place
18 - Boldwood in Meditation--Regret
19 - The Sheep-Washing--The Offer
20 - Perplexity--Grinding the Shears--A Quarrel
21 - Troubles in the Fold--A Message
22 - The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers
23 - Eventide--A Second Declaration
24 - The Same Night--The Fir Plantation
25 - The New Acquaintance Described
26 - Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead
27 - Hiving the Bees
28 - The Hollow Amid the Ferns
29 - Particulars of a Twilight Walk
30 - Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes
31 - Blame--Fury
32 - Night--Horses Tramping
33 - In the Sun--A Harbinger
34 - Home Again--A Trickster
35 - At an Upper Window
36 - Wealth in Jeopardy--The Revel
37 - The Storm--The Two Together
38 - Rain--One Solitary Meets Another
39 - Coming Home--A Cry
40 - On Casterbridge Highway
41 - Suspicion--Fanny Is Sent For
42 - Joseph and His Burden--Buck's Head
43 - Fanny's Revenge
44 - Under a Tree--Reaction
45 - Troy's Romanticism
46 - The Gurgoyle: Its Doings
47 - Adventures by the Shore
48 - Doubts Arise--Doubts Linger
49 - Oak's Advancement--A Great Hope
50 - The Sheep Fair--Troy Touches His Wife's Hand
51 - Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider
52 - Converging Courses
53 - Concurritur--Horae Momento
54 - After the Shock
55 - The March Following--"Bathsheba Boldwood"
56 - Beauty in Loneliness--After All
57 - A Foggy Night and Morning--Conclusion

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide readership and critical acclaim. According to Virginia Woolf, "The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels." The book is often regarded as an early piece of feminist literature, since it features an independent woman with the courage to defy convention by running a farm herself. Although Bathsheba's passionate nature leads her into serious errors of judgment, Hardy endows her with sufficient resilience, intelligence, and good luck to overcome her youthful folly.