Far From the Madding Crowd

Bathsheba Everdene, living in the quiet rural village of Weatherbury, is indeed disrupted by the 'madding crowd'. After shunning the first man to love her, the shepherd Gabriel Oak, she is courted by two others: the lonely and repressed farmer Boldwood, and the charming but faithless Sergeant Troy. This novel was made into an award-winning movie. Masterful Britsh literature, it goes without saying. Not surprisingly R.L.Stevenson said"I would give my hand to write like Hardy."