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Under the Greenwood Tree
Contributor(s): Hardy, Thomas (Author), Gatrell, Simon (Editor), Mallett, Phillip (Author)
ISBN: 0199697205     ISBN-13: 9780199697205
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $10.76  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2013464843
Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.40 lbs) 256 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
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One of the most popular of Hardy's novels, Under the Greenwood Tree is a delightful and humorous depiction of life in an early Victorian rural community. The story delicately balances the concerns of the Mellstock parish choir with a romance between the village schoolmistress and a member of the
choir. Hardy thought well enough of the tale to place it among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group with includes his most characteristic work.

This freshly reset second edition features a new introduction by Phillip Mallett, who explores the tension in the novel between a vanishing rural idyll and the social realities making change inevitable; the novel's portrait of rural life and character; its revealing textual history and the relation
of art to elegy. This edition also features new, expanded notes which provide historical background, gloss dialect and unfamiliar terms, and highlight significant revisions.

Lastly, both the introduction and the notes take into account the substantial critical discussion that has taken place in the 27 years since the edition was first published. The book also includes maps of Hardy's Wessex and the fictional setting of Mellstock, a new and up-to-date bibliography, and a
thorough chronology.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.