In the secluded Wessex woodland village of Little Hintock, the timber merchant Melbury has educated his daughter Grace above her neighbours and now hesitates over the faithful apple-grower Giles Winterborne, to whom she was half promised. Into the woods comes Edred Fitzpiers, a clever and restless young doctor of old family, while the poor girl Marty South watches and works in silence.
A late Hardy novel of rare tenderness, unmatched in its feeling for trees and the people who live by them. Download the free EPUB.