Gold-embossed spine is still bright and vivid with MINIMAL! wear. There is a printing error on the front overleaf and the two pages are still connected. In EXCELLENT! antique condition, the book is complete. 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. This is Volume VI of the Wessex Novels.Ībout the book: In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a simple and loyal woodlander and an exotic and sophisticated outsider. Published and printed by MacMillan, London, England. Antique (1920) hardcover book the Woodlanders written by Thomas Hardy.
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