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The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy. The novel is set between 1856 and 1858. It was serialised from 15 May 1886 to 9 April 1887 in Macmillan's Magazine and published in three volumes in 1887. It is one of his series of Wessex novels.
- Tim Armstrong
- 1887
The Woodlanders, novel by Thomas Hardy, published serially in Macmillan’s Magazine from 1886 to 1887 and in book form in 1887. The work is a pessimistic attack on a society that values high status and socially sanctioned behaviour over good character and honest emotions. The story begins as Grace.
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The Woodlanders is an 1887 novel about the many forms of love: unconditional, self, parental, passionate, unrequited. It is an intriguing story where every single part of it has a purpose!
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- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
- The Woodlanders
- English
Dec 9, 2020 · The Woodlanders [1887] - ★★★★★ In this novel, Grace, an impressionable, recently-educated girl, “who has been around cultivated folks” arrives home to a small village of Little Hintock after a long absence and to the delight of her father Mr Melbury, a timber merchant.
Love, and the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardy's 'woodland story'. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-to-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of the dashing and dissolute doctor, Edred Fitzpiers.
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The Woodlanders. Thomas Hardy. Penguin, Aug 1, 1998 - Fiction - 464 pages. When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the...
