The Woodlanders
by Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Project Gutenberg 1996
ISBN/ASIN: 1438522754
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Love and the erratic heart are at the center of Hardy's 'woodland story'. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-to-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of the dashing and dissolute doctor, Edred Fitzpiers.
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