The Woodlanders (English Library) - Softcover

Gregor, Ian; Gibson, James; Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140431454 ISBN 13: 9780140431452

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1981

Synopsis

The setting is gentler than in some of Hardy's novels, but the story is similar - thwarted love and ruined lives.

About this title

Review:

"The finest English novel."--Arnold Bennett

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

"The finest English novel."--Arnold Bennett
"From the Trade Paperback edition."

"The finest English novel." --Arnold Bennett

From the Back Cover:

Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father looks to find a husband for her. There are two rivals for her hand: Giles Winterborne, a good-hearted yeoman and her childhood sweetheart, and Edred Fitzpiers, an ambitious young doctor of good family. Fitzpiers wins her, but the mismatch brings unhappiness not just to the young couple, but to a wider circle in the woodland community.

'The Woodlanders' is one of Hardy’s most powerful works and the one he liked best. With brooding sexual undertones, it addresses themes about which the author held strong views – the laws of divorce, the inequalities of society, and the uncertainty of land tenure.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0140431454
• ISBN 13: 9780140431452
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 464