The Woodlanders Penguin Popular Classics

Passion and money, beauty and ambition, these are the opening themes in The Woodlanders , a novel revolving around a small village community coming to terms with a radically changing world. Plain Marty South, a young country girl mature beyond her years, endures her love for Giles Winterbourne in silence. He works in partnership with George Melbury, the local timber-merchant Passion and money, beauty and ambition, these are the opening themes in The Woodlanders , a novel revolving around a small village community coming to terms with a radically changing world. Plain Marty South, a young country girl mature beyond her years, endures her love for Giles Winterbourne in silence. He works in partnership with George Melbury, the local timber-merchant and chief man of business in the area. Giles has deep unspoken feelings for Mr Melburys daughter Grace who has been away at boarding school and now returns to Little Hintock an educated young woman with modern ideas. Giles belongs to a past she no longer wants to be a part of and she is soon attracted to the new, handsome young doctor in the ...