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Far from the Madding Crowd

2015

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Brett Alan Dewing
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Ya know, sometimes a girl just wants to run her farm without every guy in the county bringing his drama to her door.

Then again, sometimes a girl goes to All Saints instead of All Souls and ends up a dead pregnant beggar.

So you never can tell.

Thomas Hardy is one writer whose novels I genuinely despise. (But a great poet, fyi.) So, thankfully, when one of…

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