by Thomas Hardy
Another Hardy character to rival Sue Bridehead in emotional complexity is, I feel, Grace Melbury in The Woodlanders. Grace is the young country girl sent away by her vain and ambitious father to be educated and refined and when she returns we see how the natural order of a small rural community is i...
As part of one of my Goodreads groups, I am doing a Hardy project this summer. The Woodlanders isn't the first Hardy I've read - in 2015, I read Far from the Madding Crowd and I read The Mayor of Casterbridge some time prior to 2011. As is my custom, I saved the scholarly introduction for my edition...
A story of thwarted love and ambition set amongst the woodsmen and women of Little Hintock. Read by Juliet StevensonBroadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 3:30pm Monday 5th July 2010Duration:15 minutesAvailable until:3:47pm Monday 12th July 2010Categories:Drama, Classic & Period, Relationships & Romance#6 Newlyw...
Was Thomas Hardy a happy man? He seems indifferent to the characters I personally liked, so maybe he was indifferent to everything he embraced in human nature. At any rate, this was my first full-on Hardy, being the first book of his I'd started which didn't seep out moody and slow from the first th...
Trees, trees, trees. These characters live where there are trees.Influenced by the French impressionists, the novel is more dreamlike and impressionistic than normal for Hardy. It focuses on the group and not the individual. It lacks the normal urgency and clarity and drive of a Hardy novel and t...
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:...
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:...
First sentence: “The rambler who, for old association or other reasons, should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey in the vicinity of some extensive woodlands, intersper...
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