![]() Last on the scene comes Sergeant Troy, a dashing soldier and a carefree lady-killer. ![]() Boldwood, a wealthy middle-aged farmer, finds himself obsessed with Bathsheba after she has sent him a valentine card on a mischievous whim. Having lost his entire flock through accident he has by chance come to work for her as a shepherd. Gabriel Oak had earlier proposed to her and been refused, when he was a rising sheep-farmer. She is soon to be distracted, however, by the attentions of three contrasting suitors. ![]() Being forceful and independent she makes a success of her new role, despite her inexperience. The heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, has at an early age to take charge of a farm inherited from an uncle. ![]() The novel conveys a vivid sense of a vanishing tradition of country life and work. Far from the Madding Crowdwas published as a monthly serial inCornhillMagazine, in 1874, before coming out in book form in the November of that same year. ![]()
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