Download or read book Far from the Madding Crowd - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Thomas Hardy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses – if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man’s world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives . . .