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    Far From The Madding Crowd Summary

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    The novel begins by introducing Gabriel Oak, a young farmer, and Bathsheba Everdene. Gabriel falls in love with Bathsheba and proposes, but is rejected. He then loses his flock in an accident. Months later, while looking for work, Gabriel saves Bathsheba's barn from a fire and is hired as her shepherd. Bathsheba later marries the charming Sergeant Troy in secret, but he mistreats her and it is revealed he had a previous lover, Fanny Robin, who died. Troy disappears and is presumed dead. Boldwood, who also loves Bathsheba, convinces her to marry him in six years. However, at his party, Troy reappears and is shot

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    The novel begins by introducing Gabriel Oak, a young farmer, and Bathsheba Everdene. Gabriel falls in love with Bathsheba and proposes, but is rejected. He then loses his flock in an accident. Months later, while looking for work, Gabriel saves Bathsheba's barn from a fire and is hired as her shepherd. Bathsheba later marries the charming Sergeant Troy in secret, but he mistreats her and it is revealed he had a previous lover, Fanny Robin, who died. Troy disappears and is presumed dead. Boldwood, who also loves Bathsheba, convinces her to marry him in six years. However, at his party, Troy reappears and is shot

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    The novel begins by introducing Gabriel Oak, a young farmer, and Bathsheba Everdene. Gabriel falls in love with Bathsheba and proposes, but is rejected. He then loses his flock in an accident. Months later, while looking for work, Gabriel saves Bathsheba's barn from a fire and is hired as her shepherd. Bathsheba later marries the charming Sergeant Troy in secret, but he mistreats her and it is revealed he had a previous lover, Fanny Robin, who died. Troy disappears and is presumed dead. Boldwood, who also loves Bathsheba, convinces her to marry him in six years. However, at his party, Troy reappears and is shot

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    The novel begins by introducing Gabriel Oak, a young farmer, and Bathsheba Everdene. Gabriel falls in love with Bathsheba and proposes, but is rejected. He then loses his flock in an accident. Months later, while looking for work, Gabriel saves Bathsheba's barn from a fire and is hired as her shepherd. Bathsheba later marries the charming Sergeant Troy in secret, but he mistreats her and it is revealed he had a previous lover, Fanny Robin, who died. Troy disappears and is presumed dead. Boldwood, who also loves Bathsheba, convinces her to marry him in six years. However, at his party, Troy reappears and is shot

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    The novel begins in the town of Norcombe, where 

    Gabriel Oak is a young farmer. One day,


    he makes the acquaintance of Bathsheba Everdene, who is staying with her aunt nearby,
    when she saves him from accidental suffocation. He quickly falls in love and asks her to marry
    him; however, she rejects his proposal and soon moves away to nearby Weatherbury. Shortly
    thereafter, Gabriel’s sheepdog in training mistakenly drives his entire flock over a cliff,
    bankrupting Gabriel.

    Some months later, he is travelling to look for work when he finds himself in Weatherbury.
    Spotting a barn on fire, he leaps to work to save it. The barn coincidentally belongs to
    Bathsheba, who has inherited her uncle’s farm. The townspeople, unaware of their history, call
    for Bathsheba to hire the heroic Gabriel as a shepherd, to which she assents. Gabriel finds
    lodging and becomes a reliable worker for Bathsheba; their relationship remains professional.

    One Valentine’s Day, Bathsheba decides to send a valentine in jest to her neighbor,  William
    Boldwood, another wealthy local farmer, because Boldwood never takes notice of her in the
    markets or in church. Boldwood, a very serious man, believes the valentine to be a true
    declaration of love and becomes infatuated with Bathsheba. He pursues her until she finally
    relents and agrees to consider marrying him in five or six weeks if he agrees to leave her alone
    until then.

    In that time, Bathsheba happens to run into Sergeant Troy, a young military man from the area
    home on leave. Troy is charming and passionate, and when he pursues Bathsheba, despite the
    warnings of those around her, she falls in love with him. They marry secretly in Bath.
    Boldwood is distraught and falls into a deep depression, to the point of neglecting his crops,
    and he loses the majority of his yield to a heavy storm.

    Following their marriage, however, Troy becomes more interested in drinking and gambling
    than settling down, and Bathsheba quickly grows to regret marrying him. Further, Troy still
    has feelings for an old girlfriend of his. Unbeknownst to Bathsheba, Troy’s old lover
    was Fanny Robin, a former servant of Bathsheba’s who mysteriously disappeared. When news
    arrives that Fanny has died in a poorhouse in nearby Casterbridge, Bathsheba takes charge of
    collecting the body and arranging the burial. In the process, she figures out Troy’s connection
    to Fanny, which is confirmed when Troy returns and finds Fanny in the coffin. He tells
    Bathsheba that he had only ever truly loved Fanny, and that Bathsheba means nothing to him.

    After arranging for a headstone for Fanny, Troy walks off toward Budmouth. He goes
    swimming in a nearby cove and is swept out to sea. The town presumes him dead; Boldwood,
    reinvigorated, renews his pursuit of Bathsheba, finally convincing her to promise at his
    Christmas party that she will marry him in six years, once an appropriate amount of time has
    passed since Troy’s disappearance. However, just then, Troy arrives at the party, demanding
    that Bathsheba leave with him. When Troy becomes rough with Bathsheba, Boldwood shoots
    him, then turns himself in. He is eventually sentenced to indefinite imprisonment.

    All the while, Gabriel has stood by Bathsheba, serving as her constant and most trusted worker
    and friend. She comes to realize that she loves him; at the end of the novel, a little more than
    one year after Troy’s death, Gabriel and Bathsheba marry. 

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