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The Woodlanders

The Woodlanders

The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It was serialised from May 1886 to April 1887 in Macmillan's Magazine and published in three volumes in 1887. It is one of his series of Wessex novels.


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“All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.”

Source: The Woodlanders (1887), Ch. XIX

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