description: 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. When the mysterious Felice Charmond further complicates the romantic entanglements, marital choice and class mobility become inextricably linked. Hardy's powerful novel depicts individuals in thrall to desire and the natural law that motivates them.
language: English
title: The Woodlanders
titlecomplete: The Woodlanders
characters: Mrs. Charmond, Grace Melbury, Giles Winterbourne, Marty South, Edred Fitzpiers
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 16201
places: Little Hintock, Dorset, England, Dorset, England
publisher: HarperCollins UK