The Woodlanders

by Thomas Hardy

Overview

Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father looks to find a husband for her. There are two rivals for her hand: Giles Winterborne, a good-hearted yeoman and her childhood sweetheart, and Edred Fitzpiers, an ambitious young doctor of good family. Fitzpiers wins her, but the mismatch brings unhappiness not just to the young couple, but to a wider circle in the woodland community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420979909
Publisher:	Digireads.com Publishing
Publication date:	12/11/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alan Manford was formerly Head of English Department in a Birmingham comprehensive school. He has edited the Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (1985) and Life's Little Ironies (1996).

Date of Birth:

June 2, 1840

Date of Death:

January 11, 1928

Place of Birth:

Higher Brockhampon, Dorset, England

Place of Death:

Max Gate, Dorchester, England

Education:

Served as apprentice to architect James Hicks

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Woodlanders; Editorial emendations; Textual notes; Record of variants – accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A: the title-page verse; Appendix B: Hardy's prefaces; Appendix C: illustrations; Appendix D: description of substantive editions; Appendix E: compositorial stints for Macmillan's Magazine; Appendix F: 'pin-holes' in the manuscript of The Woodlanders; Appendix G: compositorial stints for the 1912 Wessex edition; Explanatory notes; Glossary of dialect terms; Map of Wessex.

Editorial Reviews

The finest English novel.”—Arnold Bennett

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