{"product_id":"thomas-hardys-the-woodlanders-macmillan-1951","title":"Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders - Macmillan, 1951","description":"\u003cbr\u003eTitle: The Woodlanders\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Thomas Hardy\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Macmillan\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 1951\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003eCondition: This book is in a good condition for its age with minor wear, tanned pages.\u003c!-- split --\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eReader's note\u003c\/h2\u003eThis wonderful book contains beautiful poetic descriptions of the english countryside.. The situation of the house, prejudicial to humanity, was a stimulus to vegetation, on which account an endless shearing of the heavy-armed ivy was necessary, and a continual lopping of trees and shrubs. It was an edifice built in times when human constitutions were damp-proof, when shelter from the boisterous was all that men thought of in choosing a dwelling-place, the insidious being beneath their notice; and its hollow site was an ocular reminder, by its unfitness for modern lives, of the fragility to which these have declined. The highest architectural cunning could have done nothing to make Hintock House dry and salubrious; and ruthless ignorance could have done little to make it unpicturesque. It was vegetable nature’s own home; a spot to inspire the painter and poet of still life—if they did not suffer too much from the relaxing atmosphere—and to draw groans from the gregariously disposed...add this contraversial classic to your library today!","brand":"Country House Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55634544263547,"sku":"10493564","price":8.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2458\/8207\/files\/orig_489234_jpg.jpg?v=1753192731","url":"https:\/\/countryhouselibrary.co.uk\/products\/thomas-hardys-the-woodlanders-macmillan-1951","provider":"Country House Library ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}