Under the Greenwood Tree
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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.
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The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. This novel is an unashamed and picturesque portrait of the long-vanished pastoral society of early Victorian England. It is a humorous study of resistance to change, and it enabled Hardy to express his affection and love for the Wessex countryside. Synopsis: "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 " Book Dimension : length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6 目录：
PART THE FIRST: WINTER
Ⅰ Mellstock-Lane Ⅱ The Tranters Ⅲ The Assembled Quire Ⅳ Going the Rounds Ⅴ The Listeners Ⅵ Christmas Morning Ⅶ The Tranters Party Ⅷ They Dance more Wildly Ⅸ Dick Calls at the School PART THE SECOND:SPRING Ⅰ Passing by the School Ⅱ A Meeting of the Quire Ⅲ A Turn in the Discussion Ⅳ The Interview with the Vicar Ⅴ Returning Homeward Ⅵ Yalbury Wood and the Keepers House Ⅶ Dick Makes himself Useful Ⅷ Dick Meets his Father PART TIlE THIRD: SUMMER Ⅰ Driving out of Budmouth Ⅱ Further along the Road Ⅲ A Confession Ⅳ An Arrangement PART THE FOURTH: AUTUMN Ⅰ Going Nutting Ⅱ Honey-taking, and Afterwards Ⅲ Fancy in the Rain Ⅳ The Spell Ⅴ After Gaining her Point Ⅵ Into Temptation Ⅶ Second Thoughts PART THE FIFTH:CONCLUSION Ⅰ The Knot Theres No Untying Ⅱ Under the Greenwood Tree |