Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy's beloved pastoral drama. The spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits a farm and finds herself courted by three very different men, against the enduring rhythms of the Wessex countryside.

At a glance A young woman inherits a farm and the freedom to run it herself, and into her orbit come… What it's about Bathsheba Everdene is independent, capable and headstrong, and when she… Thomas Hardy sets three men in her path: the steadfast shepherd Gabriel Oak, who loves… Their intertwining fortunes play out across the seasons of rural Wessex, through harvest…

Bathsheba Everdene is independent, capable and headstrong, and when she takes charge of her late uncle's farm she becomes the pivot of the community.