Under the Greenwood Tree (Wordsworth Collection)

Thomas Hardy

ISBN 10: 1853262277 / ISBN 13: 9781853262272

Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Under the Greenwood Tree (Wordsworth Collection)
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853262277
• ISBN 13: 9781853262272
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1758501594.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 46785278
• Signed: 9/22/2025 12:39:54 AM
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.