West, Clare.

Far from the madding crowd / Thomas Hardy ; retold by Clare West. - 2nd ed. - 104 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Oxford bookworms library. 5 . - Oxford bookworms library. 5. .

Previous ed.:1992.

Biographical Note -- Introduction -- Map of Wessex -- Author's Preface -- Description of Farmer Oak - An Incident -- Night - The Flock - An Interior - Another Interior -- A Girl on Horseback - Conversation -- Gabriel's Resolve - The Visit - The Mistake -- Departure of Bathsheba - A Pastoral Tragedy -- The Fair - The Journey - The Fire -- Recognition - A Timid Girl -- The Malthouse - The Chat - News -- The Homestead - A Visitor - Half-Confidences -- Mistress and Men -- Outside the Barracks - Snow - A Meeting -- Farmers - A Rule - An Exception -- Sortes Sanctorum - The Valentine -- Effect of the Letter - Sunrise -- A Morning Meeting - The Letter Again -- All Saints' and All Souls' -- In the Market-Place -- Boldwood in Meditation - Regret -- The Sheep-Washing - The Offer -- Perplexity - Grinding the Shears - A Quarrel -- Troubles in the Fold - A Message -- The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers -- Eventide - A Second Declaration -- The Same Night - The Fir Plantation -- The New Acquaintance Described -- Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead -- Hiving the Bees -- The Hollow Amid the Ferns -- Particulars of a Twilight Walk -- Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes -- Blame - Fury -- Night - Horses Tramping -- In the Sun - A Harbinger -- Home Again - A Trickster -- At an Upper Window -- Wealth in Jeopardy - The Revel -- The Storm - The Two Together -- Rain - One Solitary Meets Another -- Coming Home - A Cry -- On Casterbridge Highway -- Suspicion - Fanny Is Sent For -- Joseph and His Burden - Buck's Head -- Fanny's Revenge -- Under a Tree - Reaction -- Troy's Romanticism -- The Gurgoyle: Its Doings -- Adventures by the Shore -- Doubts Arise - Doubts Linger -- Oak's Advancement - A Great Hope -- The Sheep Fair - Troy Touches His Wife's Hand -- Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider -- Converging Courses -- Concurritur - Horae Memento -- After the Shock -- The March Following - "Bathsheba Boldwood" -- Beauty in Loneliness - After All -- A Foggy Night and Morning - Conclusion -- Notes -- Reading Group Guide -- A Note on the Text. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57.

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