The woodlanders

By Thomas Hardy

Subjects: England, fiction, Marriage, fiction, Fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, psychological

Description: Love, & the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardy's 'woodland story'. The romantic entanglements of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, the dissolute Edred Fitzpiers & the wealthy Felice Charmond are bound up with issues of class & social status as they make their marital choices.