In the woodland hamlet of Little Hintock, Grace Melbury is caught between the steadfast apple-grower Giles Winterborne and the restless incomer doctor Edred Fitzpiers, amid the villagers' intimate dependence on the surrounding trees.
Books mentioned in The Woodlanders (2)
The Way of the World by William Congreve: “Ah, old author of 'The Way of the World,' you knew--you knew!"”
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare: “That's out of 'Measure for Measure,'" said she, slyly.”
Books that mention The Woodlanders (2)
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “I first fell in love (if I remember accurately) not with an actual girl but with Marty South in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders”
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “Grouped with Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, and The Mayor of Casterbridge.”