Society
Far from the Madding Crowd
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA woman inherits a farm and three suitors along with it, and spends the book discovering that competence and good judgment are not the same skill. Hardy is gentler here than in his later, angrier novels, though the ache is already visible underneath. The sheep alone cause more plot than most human characters manage elsewhere on this shelf.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 9 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- On the Society shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #107. In the public domain in the United States.