by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620962
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«Under the Greenwood Tree» is Thomas Hardy's romantic novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
In the fictional village of Mellstock, church musician Dick Dewey falls in love with the new schoolmistress, Fancy Day, while the arrival of a modern organ and a new vicar alters the customs of the rural community. Hardy combines romance, humor and a nostalgic look at country life in one of his gentlest novels.
This novel is set in Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex and was originally published in 1872; the Penguin Popular Classics edition is from 1994.
Recommended for readers of classic Victorian fiction and for those seeking a gentle introduction to Thomas Hardy's work.
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.
