HARDY THOMAS:Biblio.com
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THE WOODLANDERS.In Three Volumes
1887rif. 29220London: Macmillan 1887. 3 volumes. First edition. First issue in first binding state with the called for advertisement leaf at the end of Vol. I. 8vo original dark green very-fine bead-grain cloth blocked in black and lettered in gold; with dark chocolate end papers. In green slipcase. iv 302 ads; iv 328; iv 316. Half-titles in each. A nice copy with less than the usual normal wear or rubbing to the cloth and end papers. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. First published in MACMILLAN’S MAGAZINE this is a novel of unrequited love set in the country near the Blackmoor Vale of Dorset. It is a tragic tale of the consequences resulting from the quest for status among the country people. 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. He 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. His view of women is more french than English; it is subtle a little cruel.thoroughly a man's point of view and not man's and woman's at once.No one has created more attractive women of a certain class women whom a man would have been more likely to love or to regret loving. In The Woodlanders women are allowed more liberty with a franker treatment of instinct and its consequences. Macmillan hardcover
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