One title on the list:Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas HardyRead about another book on the list.
Even devotees of Hardy's fiction will find it hard to think of Sergeant Troy's supposed death from drowning without recalling the film version, with Terence Stamp leaving his clothes and his troubles behind him on a Dorset beach. Years later, as Bathsheba teeters on the brink of marriage to Boldwood, Troy, her "dead husband", returns to reclaim her. Boldwood shoots him.
Far from the Madding Crowd also appears on John Mullan's list of ten of the best fake deaths in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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