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The Woodlanders

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The Woodlanders

Written by: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Samuel West
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Set in the Dorset landscape familiar to Hardy novels, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-do-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of a dashing and dissolute doctor, Edred Fitzpiers. When the mysterious Mrs Charmond further complicates the romantic entanglements, marital choice and class mobility become inextricably linked.(P)2014 Audible, Inc. Classics Fiction Historical Fiction Romance

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"The foremost novelist of his time." (Geoffrey Harvey, The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy)
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Excellent! The story kept mean hooked through out the read. Loved the narrators reading voice!

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I wholeheartedly recommend this version of a favourite book. It is so beautifully read, I could almost feel myself in Little Hintok.

A phenomenally wonderful tale, beautifully read.

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