6/20/2023 0 Comments The woodlanders by thomas hardyHe is.a determinist, and he studies the workings of fate or law (ruling through inexorable moods or humours), in the chief vivifying and disturbing influence in life, women. In THE WOODLANDERS, as in all his work, Thomas Hardy is concerned with one thing, seen under two aspects not civilization, nor manners, but the principle of life itself, invisibly realized in humanity as sex, seen visibly in the world as what we call nature. It is a tragic tale of the consequences resulting from the quest for status among the country people. First published in MACMILLAN S MAGAZINE, this is a novel of unrequited love set in the country near the Blackmoor Vale of Dorset. A nice copy with less than the usual normal wear or rubbing to the cloth and end papers. 8vo, original dark green very-fine bead-grain cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gold with dark chocolate end papers. First issue in first binding state with the called for advertisement leaf at the end of Vol.
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