The woodlanders
(2016)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Xist Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2016
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781681955353 (electronic bk.) MWT11660360, 1681955350 (electronic bk.) 11660360
LANGUAGE
English
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Read by Stephen Thorne

To Be or Not to Be Worthy of One's Love. "On older trees still than these huge lobes of fungi grew like lungs. Here, as everywhere, the Unfulfilled Intention, which makes life what it is, was as obvious as it could be among the depraved crowds of a city slum. The leaf was deformed. the taper was interrupted...and the ivy slowly strangled to death the promising sapling." After spending several years away from home to study, Grace Melbury returns to Little Hintock only to find Giles, his betrothed, still in love with her. Her father thinks Giles, a humble peasant, isn't worthy of marrying his highly, educated daughter and persuades her to marry a young doctor by the name of Edgar Fitzpiers. Edgar is not quite the loyal type though

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