Far from the Madding Crowd return, Boldwood offers his rival a large bribe to give up Bathsheba. Troy pretends to consider the offer, then scornfully announces they are already married. Boldwood withdraws, humiliated, and vows revenge. Bathsheba soon discovers that her new husband is an improvident gambler with little interest in farming. Worse, she begins to suspect he does not love her. In fact, Troy's heart belongs to her former servant, Fanny Robin. Before meeting Bathsheba, Troy had promised to marry Fanny; on the wedding day, however, the luckless girl went to the wrong church. She explained her mistake, but Troy, humiliated at being left
Faces in the Crowd (novel) Faces in the Crowd (novel) Faces in the Crowd is a novel published by the Mexican author Valeria Luiselli in 2011 (originally under the title "Los ingrávidos"). Christina MacSweeney's English translation was published by Coffee House Press in 2014. The novel chronicles three parallel yet intersecting narrative realities. The first narrative is set in Mexico City and follows a young mother writing a memoir of her bohemian days working as a translator of Mexican poetry in Harlem as her marriage is falling apart. The second narrative is set in Harlem, and follows the misadventures of a young translator who creates