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Celia
Apr 21, 2018 rated it really liked it
Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

It has been fifty years since the movie of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd lit the movie screen. I saw it and loved it: Alan Bates as Oak, Peter Finch as Boldwood, Julie Christie as Bathsheba and my favorite by far Terence Stamp as Troy.

Reading this book now, it is like I never read it or saw the movie. I remembered nothing of the plot or g
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Tasha
Nov 23, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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My first Thomas Hardy and I really liked it! I'm looking forward to checking out some of his other stuff. ...more
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Aug 19, 2009 rated it it was amazing
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Jun 16, 2011 rated it liked it
Elsbeth
Jan 26, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Jul 30, 2012 rated it really liked it