PREFACE 001
Chapter 1 Description of Farmer Oak—An Incident 001
Chapter 2 Night—The Flock—An Interior—Another Interior 008
Chapter 3 A Girl on Horseback—Conversation 018
Chapter 4 Gabriel’s Resolve—The Visit—The Mistake 028
Chapter 5 Departure of Bathsheba—A Pastoral Tragedy 040
Chapter 6 The Fair—The Journey—The Fire 047
Chapter 7 Recognition—A Timid Girl 060
Chapter 8 The Malthouse—The Chat—News 065
Chapter 9 The Homestead—A Visitor—Half-Confidences 088
Chapter 10 Mistress and Men 096
Chapter 11 Outside the Barracks—Snow—A Meeting 104
Chapter 12 Farmers—A Rule—An Exception 111
Chapter 13 Sortes Sanctorum—The Valentine 117
Chapter 14 Effect of the Letter—Sunrise 123
Chapter 15 A Morning Meeting—The Letter Again 128
Chapter 16 All Saints’ and All Souls’ 142
Chapter 17 In the Marketplace 146
Chapter 18 Boldwood in Meditation—Regret 149
Chapter 19 The Sheep-Washing—The Offer 155
Chapter 20 Perplexity—Grinding the Shears—A Quarrel 162
Chapter 21 Troubles in the Fold—A Message 170
Chapter 22 The Great Barn and the Sheep-shearers 179
Chapter 23 Eventide—A Second Declaration 192
Chapter 24 The Same Night—The Fir Plantation 201
Chapter 25 The New Acquaintance Described 210
Chapter 26 Scene on the Verge of the Haymead 215
Chapter 27 Hiving the Bees 227
Chapter 28 The Hollow amid the Ferns 232
Chapter 29 Particulars of a Twilight Walk 239
Chapter 30 Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes 248
Chapter 31 Blame—Fury 254
Chapter 32 Night—Horses Tramping 265
Chapter 33 In the Sun—A Harbinger 276
Chapter 34 Home Again—A Trickster 287
Chapter 35 At an Upper Window 300
Chapter 36 Wealth in Jeopardy—The Revel 305
Chapter 37 The Storm—The Two Together 316
Chapter 38 Rain—One Solitary Meets Another 325
Chapter 39 Coming Home—A Cry 330
Chapter 40 On Casterbridge Highway 336
Chapter 41 Suspicion—Fanny is Sent For 345
Chapter 42 Joseph and his Burden—Buck’s Head 359
Chapter 43 Fanny’s Revenge 373
Chapter 44 Under a Tree—Reaction 386
Chapter 45 Troy’s Romanticism 395
Chapter 46 The Gurgoyle: Its Doings 401
Chapter 47 Adventures by the Shore 411
Chapter 48 Doubts Arise—Doubts Linger 415
Chapter 49 Oak’s Advancement—A Great Hope 422
Chapter 50 The Sheep Fair—Troy Touches his Wife’s Hand 429
Chapter 51 Bathsheba Talks with her Outrider 447
Chapter 52 Converging Courses 457
Chapter 53 Concurritur—Hor? Momento 470
Chapter 54 After the Shock 484
Chapter 55 The March Following—“Bathsheba Boldwood” 490
Chapter 56 Beauty in Loneliness—After All 496
Chapter 57 A Foggy Night and Morning—Conclusion 508