Far from the madding crowd / Hardy, Thomas

aBathsheba Everdene arrives in Weatherbury to receive her inheritance and attracts three suitors.

Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three young men: an adventurer, a young farmer who becomes bailiff of the farm she inherits, and a neighboring farmer.

Set in fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, first published anonymously in 1874. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with energy and charm.

Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three men: an adventurer, a young farmer who becomes bailiff of the farm she inherits, and a neighboring farmer.