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Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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Gabriel Oak is a shepherd struggling to get ahead when Bathsheba Everdene moves next door. Although he loves her, she sees him as a friend and rejects him for two other suitors. After she leaves town, she and Gabriel are reunited years later, once everything has changed. 

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