Far from the Madding Crowd

Preface 1. Description of Farmer Oak--An Incident 2. Night--The Flock--An Interior--Another Interior 3. A Girl on Horseback--Conversation 4. Gabriel's Resolve--The Visit--The Mistake 5. Departure of Bathsheba--A Pastoral Tragedy 6. The Fair--The Journey--The Fire 7. Recognition--A Timid Girl 8. The Malthouse--The Chat--News 9. 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