The Woodlanders: Original and Unabridged

The Woodlanders, a novel by Thomas Hardy, is one of his series of Wessex novels.In a small woodland village called Little Hintock, we see the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been informally betrothed for some time, her father has made financial sacrifices to give his adored only child a superior education and no longer considers Giles good enough for her. When the new doctor - a well-born and handsome you...