by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140431230
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«Under the Greenwood Tree» is the classic novel by Thomas Hardy, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
In the rural community of Mellstock, young church musician Dick Dewey courts the new schoolmistress Fancy Day, while her arrival also unsettles the parish choir. Hardy portrays with humor and tenderness the customs of Victorian England and the pulse of a village witnessing its traditions change.
This edition includes an introduction and notes by David Wright. The full subtitle of the work is 'or, The Mellstock quire, a rural painting of the Dutch school'.
Recommended for those who enjoy Victorian classics and novels of manners with a light tone, humor and romance.
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
