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The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1887
Pages
Pages 400

A timber merchant marries his daughter to a charming doctor who strays; a man-trap set for him catches only her skirt. The woodsman who loved her dies of a night in the rain, she takes her husband back, and a poor girl keeps his grave.

If ever I forget your name, let me forget home and Heaven!
The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy

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