Under the Greenwood Tree
$28.90
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2004
Summary
Hardy’s tale of love and the slow disappearance of rural life.
The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its wake. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village’s musicians with his decision to abolish the church’s traditional ‘string choir’ and replace it with a modern mechanical organ, the new schoolteacher, Fancy Day, causes an upheaval of a more romantic nature, winning the hearts of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140435535 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140435530 |
| Author: | Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin, Patricia Ingham |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 and wrote both poetry and novels, including Far From the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. He died in 1928.
Tim Dolin is Research Fellow in the Australia Research Institute at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, WA. He is the author of books and articles on Victorian fiction, and has edited three of Hardy’s novels for Penguin. He has just completed George Eliot for Oxford’s ‘Authors in Context’ series, and is working on a study of the significance of British and American popular fiction in the development of Australian culture.
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