This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. Gentle creases with light handling marks to the gloss. Minor bump to foot of spine, very good close to near fine condition. Text block clean, with light toning and feint marking to edges. Boards sharp and clean, title gilt perfect. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. 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. Betrayal, adultery, disillusion, and moral compromise are all worked out in a setting evoked as both beautiful and treacherous. 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. And in his portrayal of Giles Winterborne, Hardy shows a man who responds deeply to the forces of the natural world, thought they ultimately betray him. Hardy's novel of betrayal, disillusionment and moral compromise depicts a secluded community coming to terms with the disastrous impact of outside influences. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area - a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne.

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