In the canon
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1874
- Pages
- Pages 450
A young woman refuses a shepherd's proposal, then inherits a farm and hires him when his flock dies. She sends an idle valentine to a lonely farmer and marries a soldier, and the joke ruins both men before she returns to the shepherd.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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