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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.
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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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16,694ratings854reviews. Kindle $2.99. An alternate cover edition of The Woodlanders ISBN 9780140435474 can be found here. When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne.
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- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
- The Woodlanders
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Apr 26, 2024 · The Woodlanders takes place in a fictional Dorset village whose economic livelihood depends on the woods surrounding it. The novel tells the story of twenty-something Grace Melbury, torn between...
Dec 30, 2020 · The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1887. The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterbourne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury.
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Aug 1, 1998 · 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 simple woodsman...
