Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her inheritance, the largest farm in the village. Her presence draws three suitors: the local farmer Boldwood, the shepherd Gabriel Oak and Sergeant Troy, the dashing soldier-seducer who declares, All romances end in marriage. Mass Market Paperback , 433 pages Published January 27th 2000 by Penguin Classics (first published 1874)