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Regarded as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature

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Far from the Madding Crowd merimee living and working alone inThomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Its heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, takes up her position as a farmer on a large estate, where her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman farmer Boldwood, the soldier seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways,