
Bathsheba Everdene is beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely independent-a woman determined to make her own way in the world. When she unexpectedly inherits her uncle's farm in rural Wessex, she shocks society by choosing to manage it herself, proving as capable with accounts...

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd...

Far from the Madding Crowd Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and was completed in 1874. It was originally serialized in Cornhill Magazine and was quickly published in...