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It's interesting to read Hardy and D.H. Lawrence together. Both focus on themes of marital/sexual alienation, disc...more...]]> 57834294 175962 341281 0140435476 9780140435474 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300m/341281.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300s/341281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341281.The_Woodlanders 3.75 533 1887 5 2 false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 02:59:03 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 02:59:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 10835652 706149 341281 0140435476 9780140435474 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300m/341281.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300s/341281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341281.The_Woodlanders 3.75 533 1887 3 0 false Fri Dec 21 14:08:12 -0800 2007 Fri Sep 25 12:35:00 -0700 2009 The Return of the Native or Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Native sounded suspiciously American Western to me, so I went with Tess. Hardy is a simply beautiful descriptive writer...more...]]> 49291776 1662632 341281 0140435476 9780140435474 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300m/341281.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300s/341281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341281.The_Woodlanders 3.75 533 1887 0 0 false Sat Mar 14 18:50:05 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 21:00:53 -0700 2009 (Somehow I missed this one in my Hardy-reading kick decades ago. Have to add it in during a re-read of the oeuvre. In Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic Plots, this book is midway into the author's personal tragedy, and thus is dark, but not as dark as he's gonna get. This is placed, along with th...more...]]> 46656227 1616726 341281 0140435476 9780140435474 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300m/341281.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300s/341281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341281.The_Woodlanders 3.75 533 1887 4 0 false Tue Feb 17 12:14:42 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 12:19:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 47184565 1938342 898256 0140431454 9780140431452 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898256.Penguin_Classics_Woodlanders 3.67 6 1887 4 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Sun Feb 22 15:12:55 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 15:15:08 -0800 2009 53026434 369056 341281 0140435476 9780140435474 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300m/341281.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300s/341281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341281.The_Woodlanders 3.75 533 1887 0 0 false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 10:06:03 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 19:29:03 -0700 2009 Lewis Carroll -- in fact, that's Alice Liddell of Alice in Wonderland fame. See Penguin's edition of "The Descent of Man" for another cover featuring Carroll's photography. Is someone seriously suggesting a link between Ca...more...]]> 12865707 800817 341281 0140435476 9780140435474 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300m/341281.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300s/341281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341281.The_Woodlanders 3.75 533 1887 5 0 false Fri Jan 18 15:56:21 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 14:06:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 24893134 966521 898256 0140431454 9780140431452 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898256.Penguin_Classics_Woodlanders 3.75 533 1887 4 0 false Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 08:51:03 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 13:39:01 -0700 2008
...more...]]> 71618304 1340623 6524220 0199538530 9780199538539 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6524220-the-woodlanders 4.67 3 This is the only critical edition of the novel, which was Hardy's own favorite "as a story," that is based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and incorporates later revisions. The new introduction by Penny Boumelha considers the novel in the context of Hardy's career, the characters' relationships with one another, the role of destiny and individual choice, narrative perspective, and the community. This edition also contains a new and up-to-date bibliography and a new chronology.]]> 1887 5 0 false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 19:12:34 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 21:52:02 -0700 2009 21870125 1005346 3287860 0333045017 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3287860.The_Woodlanders 4.00 1 1887 4 0 false Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 12:36:48 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 08:09:45 -0700 2008
Well, it was a great book after all, perhaps just not for a 15 year-...more...]]> 48144353 2075722 341281 0140435476 9780140435474 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300m/341281.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173893300s/341281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341281.The_Woodlanders 3.75 533 1887 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Mar 03 14:43:46 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 14:44:46 -0800 2009 41314973 1845094 898260 0140620907 9780140620900 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179283443m/898260.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179283443s/898260.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898260.Woodlanders 3.86 7 1887 4 0 false Tue Dec 30 12:55:22 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 12:58:13 -0800 2008 64170936 896357 392589 0375761209 9780375761201 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174404816m/392589.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174404816s/392589.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392589.The_Woodlanders 4.10 10 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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1912 Wessex edition and includes Hardy’s map of fictional Wessex.


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