The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy

⏱ 8 minVictorian classic

A faithful woodsman loses the girl he loves to an ambitious marriage and a faithless doctor, and gives up his own shelter, and his life, to save her name. Hardy's tender tragedy of the Wessex woods.

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