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The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
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The Woodlanders is vintage Hardy. The story revolves around the young woman Grace Melbury, who returns to the leafy world of Little Hintock and soon finds herself at the center of a number of tragic events. In penetrating, incisive and beautiful prose, Hardy tells a moving tale of unrequited love as fate and the constraints of society thwart the happiness of our heroine. The leafy world of Blackmoor Vale and the hamlet of Little Hintock are all lovingly described by Hardy, who named The Woodlanders as the favorite of all his novels; upon re-reading it 25 years after its publication, he claimed, with certainty, it was the book he liked ‘best of all’.

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Public Domain (P)2014 Naxos AudioBooks Linguistics Social Sciences
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I loved this book so much when I was in High School in England, but I found the reading to be very disappointing, too harsh and samey. I got bored with it in the end 😥
Someone like Brendan Coyle would be a better choice, softer and more rural

Wonderful book, disappointing reading

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