Name: Thomas Hardy's Under The Greenwood Tree: "If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do."
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Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781780008226

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Thomas Hardy's Under The Greenwood Tree: "If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do."

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Hardy

Publisher

Word to the Wise

Language

English

Pages

116

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781780008226

Synopsis "Thomas Hardy's Under The Greenwood Tree: "If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.""

"If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do."First published anonymously, Under the Greenwood Tree is a novel by the renowned English writer Thomas Hardy. The story's protagonist is Dick Dewy, a young man from the lower middle class who is a church musician and a member of the Mellstock choir along with his own father and grandfather. When a new music teacher named Fancy Day is introduced to the group, Dick is enchanted by her beauty and tries his best to gain her appreciation and love. Fancy is not necessarily against the idea of being engaged to Dick, yet she receives more than another suitor among the most important and the richest men in town. These include the church's vicar Mr. Maybold who considers replacing the whole choir by Fancy and her modern organ. Although Fancy becomes attracted and then engaged to young Dick, Mr. Maybold succeeds in seducing her for a while mainly through the affluence and the comfortable life that his position and social status promises. The vicar asks Fancy to marry him and she accepts. Only one day after, their engagement was mutually annulled while Dick remains completely oblivious of all this. By the end, the novel culminates in Fancy's happy marriage to Dick

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced in both his novels and his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth

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