The Woodlanders (Oxford World's Classics)
Contributors: Dale Kramer (Editor); Penny Boumelha (Introduction)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 4, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780192840684
Description: Love and the erratic heart are at the center of Hardy's 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.