Far from the Madding Crowd (2015 film) he answers simply to "Do what is right". She breaks off the dance and leaves, only to discover Frank, outside, alive and well. He was rescued from drowning but has faked his death for some weeks, preferring the idea of being 'dead.' He demands money from Bathsheba, claiming it was unfair that he gave up his profession and now lives off nothing while she has money and a house. Frank grabs her roughly, screaming that she is still his wife and must obey him. Enraged, Boldwood emerges from the house and kills Frank with a single blast from his rifle,
A Pair of Blue Eyes Hardy's novels to be published and the first to bear his name. It was first serialised in "Tinsley's Magazine" between September 1872 and July 1873. The novel is notable for the strong parallels to Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford. In fact, of Hardy's early novels, this is probably the most densely populated with autobiographical events. A review in the "Examiner" of "Far from the Madding Crowd" retrospectively referred to it as 'not so exclusively pictoral [as "Under the Greenwood Tree"]; it was study of a more tragic kind, with more complex characters and a more stirring plot... Both