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Far from the Madding Crowd

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Far from the Madding Crowd, a novel by T. Hardy, published 1874. The title is a quotation from Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard.

The shepherd Gabriel Oak serves the young and spirited Bathsheba Everdene, owner of the farm, with unselfish devotion. The dashing Sergeant Troy loves one of Bathsheba's servants, Fanny Robin, but after a fatal misunderstanding deserts her and she eventually dies in childbirth in the workhouse. Troy has meanwhile married Bathsheba, but soon begins to ill-treat her. When he hears of Fanny's death he disappears and is deemed to have been drowned. Farmer Boldwood, now obsessed with Bathsheba, gives a party at which he pledges Bathsheba to marry him some time in the future. Troy reappears at the party and Boldwood shoots him. Boldwood is tried and pronounced insane. Gabriel and Bathsheba are at last married.

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madding crowd, far from the

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madding crowd, far from the secluded or removed from public notice. In allusion to the phrases's use in Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard, and later also taken as the title of a novel by Thomas Hardy.

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