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| Title | : | The Woodlanders |
| Author | : | Thomas Hardy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 420 pages |
| Published | : | February 5th 1998 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published 1887) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature. 19th Century. Historical. Victorian |
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In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, now in a new edition, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a simple and loyal woodlander and an exotic and sophisticated outsider. Betrayal, adultery, disillusion, and moral compromise are all worked out in a setting evoked as both beautiful and treacherous. The Woodlanders, with its thematic portrayal of the role of social class, gender, and evolutionary survival, as well as its insights into the capacities and limitations of language, exhibits Hardy's acute awareness of his era's most troubling dilemmas.Present Books Supposing The Woodlanders
| Original Title: | The Woodlanders |
| ISBN: | 0140435476 (ISBN13: 9780140435474) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Giles Winterbourne, Grace Melbury, Marty South, Edred Fitzpiers, Mrs. Charmond |
| Setting: | Little Hintock, Dorset, England Dorset, England |
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Update--May 7, 2011: I took Hardy's The Woodlanders with me on a recent week-long camping trip to Yosemite National Park, and re-read it while there. It was truly wonderful to sit in some of the most idyllic natural locations in all of the world and read this most amazing novel. If anything, I got even more from the novel this second time through, and highly recommend The Woodlanders to fans of the fiction and poetry of Thomas Hardy.***I am continuing on with my summer of reading the writtenAnother magnificent masterpiece by Thomas Hardy.This is the story of 4 people who lived in Blackmoor Vale.Grace Melbury falls in love with Giles Winterborne. However, his father George Melbury found that his daughter is more appropriate to be engaged instead to Edred Fitzpiers, a handsome and young doctor in Little Hintock. In the meantime, Edred falls in love with Felice Charmond. And then, their lives become inextricably intertwined.The movie based on this classic book The Woodlanders (1997)
Apparently, this is Thomas Hardy's favorite of all the novels he wrote.My order of Thomas Hardy favorites is:MOST FAVORITE: Far From the Madding Crowd Tess of the D'UrbervillesReturn of the NativeThe WoodlandersUnder the Greenwood TreeTwo in a TowerA Pair of Blue EyesMayor of CasterbridgeThe Well-BelovedLEAST FAVORITE: Jude the Obscure (way too tragic for me)My 18-year-old son also loves Tess of the D'Urbervilles and took it to BYU with him in his suitcase, one of 3 novels he took with him to
Okay, so I've seen the movie with Rufus Sewell. I mean who doesn't like Rufus. It was so heart wrenching, but I kind of liked it. Hoping I like the book a lot better than the movie. :)
[4+] Like other Hardy novels, the relationships in The Woodlanders seem doomed. Yet this novel is also laugh-out-loud funny, a melancholy farce. There doesn't seem to be much genuine love between the quartet of lovers who experience temporary infatuations and suffer through various missteps. Even when things don't end well, there isn't enough passion to call it a tragedy. The most interesting relationship for me is the father/daughter relationship. Although often misguided, Melbury shows real
AcknowledgementsGeneral Editor's PrefaceChronology: Hardy's Life and WorksMap: The Wessex of the NovelsBibliographical NoteIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the History of the Text--The WoodlandersAppendix I: 1895 Preface; 1912 PostscriptAppendix II: The Location of 'The Woodlanders'Appendix III: The Law, Marriage and Divorce in 'The Woodlanders'NotesGlossary
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