The story begins as Grace Melbury, daughter of a timber merchant in a Dorset village, returns from finishing school and rejects her simple but understanding fiancé, the apple grower Giles Winterbourne. At this point in his career, he was established enough as a writer to take risks, especially in the areas of sex, sexual attraction, marriage, divorce, marital fidelity, unconventional plots and tones, and seemingly immoral conclusions. The Woodlanders marks the beginnings of controversy for Hardy's novels. The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1887. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain.
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