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'Under the Greenwood Tree' is a tale of love, tragedy and the changing
charm of traditional village life when it is met with the cold reality
of modernity.
Centring on the quaint rural village of Mellstock, set deep within
Hardy's imagined and picturesque county of Wessex, the novel revolves
around a double plot of the hopeful love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy
Day and the tragic demise of the Mellstock Choir, and what the crumbling
of long-held traditions means to the local community. The arrival of Mr
Maybold, a new vicar with newfangled ideas, unsettles the local
community with ideas of revolutionary change, in which the church and
its generations-old choir are an anchor.
Considered one of Hardy's most upbeat and optimistic novels, 'Under the
Greenwood Tree' explores issues of past and future, hope and love, and
is a delightful addition to the Collins' canon of Thomas Hardy's classic
novels. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was one of the most significant
novelists and poets of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His
novels include 'Far from the Madding Crowd', 'The Mayor of
Casterbridge', 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Jude the Obscure'.
