The Woodlanders, novel by Thomas Hardy, published serially in Macmillan's Magazine from 1886 to 1887 and in book form in 1887. The work is a pessimistic attack on a society that values high status and socially sanctioned behaviour over good character and honest emotions. THOMAS HARDY OTHERS WORK INCLUDEThe Poor Man and the Lady (1867, unpublished and lost)Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872)Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)The Return of the Native (1878)The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886)The Woodlanders (1887)Wessex Tales (1888, a collection of short stories)Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891)Life's Little Ironies (1894, a collection of short stories)Jude the Obscure (1895)