Under the Greenwood Tree (Oxford World's Classics)

by Thomas Hardy (Author), Simon Gatrell (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.26

  This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.26

  This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the Penguin Popular Classics series.

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $6.73

  With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. However, the novel is not merely a charming rural idyll. The double-plot, in which the love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy Day is inter-related with a tragic chapter in the history of Mellstock Choir, hints at the poignant disappearance of a long-lived and highly-valued traditional way of life.