One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

Far from the Madding Crowd

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Far from the Madding Crowd

By THOMAS HARDY Condensation by ALFRED S. CLARK BEFORE Bathsheba Everdene came to Weatherbury as mistress of the manor-house time seemed to…

Far from the Madding Crowd: Gabriel

Their heads would have wagged even more had they known that Gabriel Oak, only a few weeks before, had been his own master, and had vainly…

Far from the Madding Crowd: Boldwood

In all Weatherbury, one man alone was heedless to her charm. This was William Boldwood, "the nearest approach to aristocracy that this…

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