The stock is tight, bright and unmarked.There is some typical spotting to the endpapers. There are gilt top page edges and others untrimmed. Originally published in book form in three volumes in 1887, this particularly well preserved copy is bound in uniform finely ribbed green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and similar TH cypher to the upper board. In, women are allowed more liberty, with a franker treatment of instinct and its consequences. 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.

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. 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.

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy