A new bride, a screwdriver and the coffin in the sitting room -- if for no other reason, this book is a MUST for that scene.
I take issue with the reviewer who described Bathsheba as "not an evil person," but rather "a force of nature." In fact, she's the protagonist of the story. Like any tragic hero, she's flawed, and by her own unique brand of hubris. With her spunkiness, grit, beauty and abject stupidity about men, she's more of a thinking person's Scarlett O'Hara, if you ask me. |