The woodlanders
By: Thomas Hardy ; edited by Dale Kramer.
Contributors: Kramer, Dale, 1936-
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Forests and forestry -- Fiction; Arranged marriage -- Fiction; Social classes -- Fiction; Dorset (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Set in the secluded forest community of Little Hintock, Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders inextricably links the dramatic English landscape with the story of a woman caught between two rivals of radically different social statures. Grace Melbury is promised to her longtime companion, Giles Winterborne, a local woodlander and a gentle, steadfast man. When her socially motivated father pressures her to wed the ambitious doctor Edred Fitzpiers, Grace's loyalties shift -- and her decision leads to tumultuous consequences. With its explorations of class and gender, lust and betrayal, The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's most vivid and powerful works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.