Name: Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School . NOVEL by: Thomas Hardy
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Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781542740258

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Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School . NOVEL by: Thomas Hardy

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Hardy

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

210

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781542740258

Synopsis "Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School . NOVEL by: Thomas Hardy"

Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, the last to be printed without his name, and the first of his great series of Wessex novels. Whilst Hardy originally thought of simply calling it The Mellstock Quire, he settled on a title taken from a song in Shakespeare's As You Like It (Act II, Scene V).The plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, the Mellstock parish choir, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled with a comely new school mistress, Fancy Day. The novel opens with the fiddlers and singers of the choir-including Dick, his father Reuben Dewy, and grandfather William Dewy-making the rounds in Mellstock village on Christmas Eve. When the little band plays at the schoolhouse, young Dick falls for Fancy at first sight. Dick, smitten, seeks to insinuate himself into her life and affections, but Fancy's beauty has gained her other suitors, including a rich farmer and the new vicar at the parish church

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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