Under the Greenwood Tree Paperback - 1999
by Thomas Hardy; Tim Dolin (Editor)
Summary
Under the Greenwood Tree is Thomas Hardy’s one and only rural idyll, a startling contrast to his other Wessex tales. In Mellstock, its surrounding farms and woodlands, the story interweaves the lingering courtship of Dick Dewy and sweet Fancy Day with the battle for survival of the old Mellstock String Choir – the last in the county – against the mechanical church organ of the new vicar, the Reverend Maybold.
Under the Greenwood Tree appears to be pastoral romance at its most sunlit and good humoured, and has been called the ‘most nearly flawless of Hardy’s novels’. Yet, as Tim Dolin shows in his Introduction, there is a darker side to this paradise, seen particularly in the conflicts arising over anachronistic customs and rituals, and the ambiguities surrounding Fancy’s forthcoming marriage. For Hardy, who drew out the associations with his own childhood in later revisions, the novel came to epitomize a past that had been forever lost to him and to England.
This new Penguin Classics edition, based on the two-volume first edition of 1872, includes Appendices which reflect the unique textual history of the novel.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Tim Dolin
Details
- Title Under the Greenwood Tree
- Author Thomas Hardy; Tim Dolin (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition International Ed
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London
- Date 1999-02-01
- ISBN 9780140435535 / 0140435530
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.24 x 1.1 in (19.71 x 13.31 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Musical fiction, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99208774
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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