Thomas Hardy编著的《远离尘嚣》讲述这样一个故事：少女芭西芭·艾维汀父母双亡，寄住在姑母家，后来继承舅父的遗产担任了崴热坝上农场的农场主。她年轻、美丽、有才干，但虚荣心强，希望得到男人们的倾慕。年轻人奥克曾是一个小小牧场的农场主，一次突然事故使他破了产，于是他受雇做了芭西芭农场的牧人。奥克爱上了芭西芭，但不善表达自己的感情，爱慕虚荣的芭西芭拒绝了他。此时，另一位与芭西芭相邻的农场主威廉·博尔德伍德也疯狂追求芭西芭。但姑娘却醉心于唐璜式的风流军士特罗伊。他学过几种语言，风流潇洒，曾欺骗过纯洁少女范妮·罗宾，后来又抛弃了她，范妮怀孕，惨死在救济院。芭西芭很快与他结了婚，然而婚后生活并不快乐。不久特罗伊厌倦了农庄生活，他出走到海边游泳遇险，被搭救后一年多没有音信。博尔德伍德三番五次向芭西芭求婚，她被迫答应，正当博尔德伍德举行晚会之时，特罗伊突然出现了。博尔德伍德感到希望破灭，开枪杀死了特罗伊，自己也神经错乱，被终生监禁。最后芭西芭与勤劳善良的牧人奥克结了婚。他们的婚礼完全没有声张，可是，当天晚上，农场的工人们却自动组织了乐队来到他们的门前祝贺。

Chapter 1 Description of Farmer Oak—An Incident

Chapter 2 Night—The Flock—An Interior—Another Interior

Chapter 3 A Girl on Horseback—C0nversation

Chapter 4 Gabriel's Resolve—The Visit—The Mistake

Chapter 5 Departure of Bathsheba—A Pastoral Tragedy

Chapter 6 The Fair—TheJourney—The Fire

Chapter 7 Recognition—A Timid Gift

Chapter 8 The Malthouse—The Chat—News

Chapter 9 The Homestead—AVisitor—Half-Confidences

Chapter 10 Mistress and Men

Chapter 11 Outside the Barracks—Snow—A Meeting

Chapter 12 Farmers—A Rule—An Exception

Chapter 13 Sortes Sanctorum—The Valentine

Chapter 14 Effect of the Letter—Sunrise

Chapter 15 A Morning Meeting—TheLetter Again

Chapter 16 All Saints' and All Souls'

Chapter 17 In the Market-Place

Chapter 18 Boldwood in Meditation—Regret

Chapter 19 The Sheep-Washing—The Offer

Chapter 20 Perplexity—Grinding the Shears—A Quarrel

Chapter 21 Troubles in the Fold—A Message

Chapter 22 The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers

Chapter 23 Eventide—A Second Declaration

Chapter 24 The same Night—The Fir Plantation

Chapter 25 The New Acquaintance Described

Chapter 26 Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead

Chapter 27 Hiving the Bees

Chapter 28 The Hollow amid the Ferns

Chapter 29 Particulars of a Twilight Walk

Chapter 30 Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes

Chapter 31 Blame—Fury

Chapter 32 Night—Horses Tramping

Chapter 33 In the Sun—A Harbinger

Chapter 34 Home Again—A Trickster

Chapter 35 At an Upper Window

Chapter 36 Wealthin Jeopardy—The Revel

Chapter 37 The Storm—The TWO Together

Chapter 38 Rain—One Solitary Meets Another

Chapter 39 Coming Home—ACry

Chapter 40 On Casterbridge Highway

Chapter 41 Suspicion—Fanny Is Sent For

Chapter 42 Joseph and His Burden—Buck's Head

Chapter 43 Fanny's Revenge

Chapter 44 Under a Tree— Reaction

Chapter 45 Troy's Romanticism

Chapter 46 The Gurgoyle: Its Doings

Chapter 47 Adventures by the Shore

Chapter 48 Doubts Arise—Doubts Linger

Chapter 49 Oak's Advancement—A Great Hope

Chapter 50 The Sheep Fair—Troy Touches His Wife's Hand

Chapter 51 Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider

Chapter 52 Converging Courses

Chapter 53 Concurritur—Horae Momento

Chapter 54 After the Shock

Chapter 55 The March Following—"Bathsheba Boldwood"

Chapter 56 Beauty in Loneliness—After All

Chapter 57 A Foggy Night and Morning—Conclusion