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The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It was serialised from May 1886 to April 1887 in Macmillan's Magazine and published in three volumes in 1887. It is one of his series of Wessex novels.

The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy. The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury.

The Woodlanders book. I just finished reading Thomas Hardy's beautiful novel The Woodlanders last night

The Woodlanders book. This village is part of the county of Wessex, where nothing happy ever seems to happen. The novel is mainly focused on Grace Melbury, the heroine of the book. I just finished reading Thomas Hardy's beautiful novel The Woodlanders last night.

Betrayal, adultery, disillusion, and moral compromise are all worked out in a setting evoked as both beautiful and treacherous

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of England's greatest novelists This is one of the two Hardy novels I had yet to read - only one now, "Two on a Tower" - and it is indeed vintage Hardy in its bleakness concerning the constancy of love between.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of England's greatest novelists. Most of his work is set in his native Dorset, on the south coast of England. This is one of the two Hardy novels I had yet to read - only one now, "Two on a Tower" - and it is indeed vintage Hardy in its bleakness concerning the constancy of love between the sexes, and also of the Wessex woodlands themselves, exuding such a strong presence herein that it is quite right, after a fashion, to call these eponymous copses.

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Ships from and sold by nationwide book traders. 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.

What we think of it now: The least appreciated "major" Hardy novel. It lacks the nostalgic tug of his early work and is not as marmoreally "tragic" as the later stuff. Hardy himself, however, thought it his best story. Boarding Schools Lettuce Terence Stamp Wine.

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The Woodlanders contains some of Thomas Hardy's finest writing. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of Little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony, Hardy eschews a happy ending.

With an Introduction and Notes by Phillip Mallett, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews.