Under The Greenwood Tree

British Literature

Red

Paperback

Third Person

Fiction

247

30

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’Miss Fancy Day; as neat a little figure of fun as ever I see, and just husband-high.’In the small Wessex village of Mellstock, the pretty young schoolmistress Fancy Day finds herself romantically entangled with three different men. Local lad and choir member Dick Dewy has to compete for her affections with a prosperous farmer and the new vicar, the Reverend Maybold. Maybold disrupts parish life and custom when he decides toreplace the three generations of singers and instrumentalists who make up the church choir with a modern organ, to be played by Fancy herself. The rivalries and intrigues that follow are played out with gentle humour against an untouched rural scene that will not long survive.Looking back tothe 1840s, and the world Hardy remembered as a child, Under the Greenwood Tree brings past and present, community and individual, loss and gain into perspective. This new edition combines a critically established text with an introduction and notes that illuminate one of Hardy’s best-loved novels.

Penguin Classics

9780140431230

Printed In Great Britain

1978-01-01

1

English

~£2.86

2026-03-03

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