Books like Far from the Madding Crowd
A shepherd, a soldier, and a gentleman farmer compete for a strong-willed woman in rural Wessex, and the pastoral landscape conceals real danger.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess Durbeyfield, a poor country girl in Victorian Wessex, is sent to claim kinship with a rich family and is wronged by its son, and the world goes on punishing her for it.
The Return of the Native
A Paris diamond merchant returns to Egdon Heath to become a schoolteacher, and his marriage to a restless woman who longs to escape the heath ends in tragedy.
Synnøve Solbakken
In a Norwegian mountain valley, Thorbjørn, a quarrelsome farmer's son, loves Synnøve, the gentle girl of the neighbouring farm, but her pious parents won't hear of a match until he learns to master his temper.
The Mill on the Floss
A young woman's passionate nature collides with provincial convention in mid-Victorian England, and the cost of being too much for your world is devastating.
Growth of the Soil
Isak, a huge, silent man, walks into the empty Norwegian uplands and clears a farm from nothing, and a woman with a harelip comes to live with him.
Harvest
On the morning after harvest in a remote English village, two fires and three strangers on the edge of the common start a week that will end the old way of life there.
L'Arrabbiata
On the coast near Sorrento, Laurella, a proud young woman who has sworn never to marry, is rowed across to Capri by Antonino, a boatman who has loved her from afar.
A Room with a View
A young woman visits Florence and discovers that passion and spontaneity offer more than the propriety she was raised to value.
Broken Country
In Dorset in 1968, Beth Johnson, still grieving the son she and her husband, Frank, lost two years before, meets again her first love, Gabriel, now a famous novelist, who has come back to his family's estate nearby with his young son.
Elias Portolu
Elias Portolu comes home to his Sardinian village after prison on the mainland and falls in love with Maddalena, the girl his brother is about to marry.
A Month in the Country
A shell-shocked veteran spends the summer of 1920 uncovering a medieval wall painting in a Yorkshire church and falling half in love with the vicar's wife.
The Enigma of Arrival
A writer from Trinidad settles in a cottage on a run-down estate in Wiltshire and watches the landscape and its people change over the years.