(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)<br><br>Set in the secluded forest community of Little Hintock, Thomas Hardy&#8217;s <i>The Woodlanders</i> inextricably links the dramatic English landscape with the story of a woman caught between two rivals of radically different social statures. Grace Melbury is promised to her longtime companion, Giles Winterborne, a local woodlander and a gentle, steadfast man. When her socially motivated father pressures her to wed the ambitious doctor Edred Fitzpiers, Grace&#8217;s loyalties shift&#8212;and her decision leads to tumultuous consequences. With its explorations of class and gender, lust and betrayal, <i>The Woodlanders</i> is one of Hardy&#8217;s most vivid and powerful works.<br><br>This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1912 Wessex edition and includes Hardy&#8217;s map of fictional Wessex.