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Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Томас Харди
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 504084395X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire written by Томас Харди and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849674096
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Under The Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1939 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Under the Greenwood Tree" is a year-long rural idyl. The nine chapters of the first part entitled "Winter," are taken up with a wonderfully humorous description of the old-fashioned wind-instrument choir of the parish of Mellstock trudging around on Christmas night to serenade every dweller in the parish, and with an equally humorous description of the party given by honest Reuben Dewey, the tranter, or wagoner. The other parts, named after the other seasons, commemorate the love of Dick Dewey, the tranter's son for Fancy Day, the village schoolmistress—a love which ends in the most typical of rural weddings, in spite of the fact that the young rector himself is somewhat smitten with the fair schoolmistress who plays the first organ set up in the parish church. The despair of the old choir at the advent of this organ and their visit to the rector in expostulation are described with a humor that puts Mr. Hardy alongside of Dickens if not, as some think, above him.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hardy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473389887
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE OR THE MELLSTOCK QUIRE - A RURAL PAINTING OF THE DUTCH SCHOOL written by Thomas Hardy and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains Thomas Hardy's heart-warming love story, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'. It is a traditional narrative of love rivalry that runs parallel to a tale of the plight of a group of musicians who are made redundant by the church's acquisition of a new organ. Relatively short compared to Hardy's other works, this is an easy read wherein the reader constantly hopes for the success of the lover's efforts in the face of continual adversity. Thomas Hardy, OM (1840 - 1928) was an English novelist and poet. Some of Hardy's notable works include 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' (1891), 'Far from the Madding Crowd' (1874), and 'The Return of the Native' (1878). We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new biography of the author.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781222068
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree Or the Mellstock Quire written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : London : Chatto & Windus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by London : Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 1913 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368320211
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire; A Rural Painting of the Dutch School written by Thomas Hardy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall. And winter, which modifies the note of such trees as shed their leaves, does not destroy its individuality.On a cold and starry Christmas-eve within living memory a man was passing up a lane towards Mellstock Cross in the darkness of a plantation that whispered thus distinctively to his intelligence. All the evidences of his nature were those afforded by the spirit of his footsteps, which succeeded each other lightly and quickly, and by the liveliness of his voice as he sang in a rural cadence: The lonely lane he was following connected one of the hamlets of Mellstock parish with Upper Mellstock and Lewgate, and to his eyes, casually glancing upward, the silver and black-stemmed birches with their characteristic tufts, the pale grey boughs of beech, the dark-creviced elm, all appeared now as black and flat outlines upon the sky, wherein the white stars twinkled so vehemently that their flickering seemed like the flapping of wings. Within the woody pass, at a level anything lower than the horizon, all was dark as the grave. The copse-wood forming the sides of the bower interlaced its branches so densely, even at this season of the year, that the draught from the north-east flew along the channel with scarcely an interruption from lateral breezes
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290080774
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a long low cottage with a hipped roof of thatch, having dormer windows breaking up into theeaves, a chimney standing in the middle of the ridge and another at each end. The window-shutterswere not yet closed, and the fire- and candle-light within radiated forth upon the thick bushes of boxand laurestinus growing in clumps outside, and upon the bare boughs of several codlin-trees hangingabout in various distorted shapes, the result of early training as espaliers combined with carelessclimbing into their boughs in later years. The walls of the dwelling were for the most part coveredwith creepers, though these were rather beaten back from the doorway-a feature which was wornand scratched by much passing in and out, giving it by day the appearance of an old keyhole. Lightstreamed through the cracks and joints of outbuildings a little way from the cottage, a sight whichnourished a fancy that the purpose of the erection must be rather to veil bright attractions than toshelter unsightly necessaries. The noise of a beetle and wedges and the splintering of wood wasperiodically heard from this direction; and at some little distance further a steady regular munchingand the occasional scurr of a rope betokened a stable, and horses feeding within it.The choir stamped severally on the door-stone to shake from their boots any fragment of earth orleaf adhering thereto, then entered the house and looked around to survey the condition of things.Through the open doorway of a small inner room on the right hand, of a character between pantryand cellar, was Dick Dewy's father Reuben, by vocation a "tranter," or irregular carrier. He was astout florid man about forty years of age, who surveyed people up and down when first making theiracquaintance, and generally smiled at the horizon or other distant object during conversations withfriends, walking about with a steady sway, and turning out his toes very considerably. Being nowoccupied in bending over a hogshead, that stood in the pantry ready horsed for the process ofbroaching, he did not take the trouble to turn or raise his eyes at the entry of his visitors, wellknowing by their footsteps that they were the expected old comrades.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a long low cottage with a hipped roof of thatch, having dormer windows breaking up into the eaves, a chimney standing in the middle of the ridge and another at each end. The window-shutters were not yet closed, and the fire- and candle-light within radiated forth upon the thick bushes of box and laurestinus growing in clumps outside, and upon the bare boughs of several codlin-trees hanging about in various distorted shapes, the result of early training as espaliers combined with careless climbing into their boughs in later years. The walls of the dwelling were for the most part covered with creepers, though these were rather beaten back from the doorway-a feature which was worn and scratched by much passing in and out, giving it by day the appearance of an old keyhole. Light streamed through the cracks and joints of outbuildings a little way from the cottage, a sight which nourished a fancy that the purpose of the erection must be rather to veil bright attractions than to shelter unsightly necessaries. The noise of a beetle and wedges and the splintering of wood was periodically heard from this direction; and at some little distance further a steady regular munching and the occasional scurr of a rope betokened a stable, and horses feeding within it.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a long low cottage with a hipped roof of thatch, having dormer windows breaking up into the eaves, a chimney standing in the middle of the ridge and another at each end. The window-shutters were not yet closed, and the fire- and candle-light within radiated forth upon the thick bushes of box and laurestinus growing in clumps outside, and upon the bare boughs of several codlin-trees hanging about in various distorted shapes, the result of early training as espaliers combined with careless climbing into their boughs in later years. The walls of the dwelling were for the most part covered with creepers, though these were rather beaten back from the doorway-a feature which was worn and scratched by much passing in and out, giving it by day the appearance of an old keyhole. Light streamed through the cracks and joints of outbuildings a little way from the cottage, a sight which nourished a fancy that the purpose of the erection must be rather to veil bright attractions than to shelter unsightly necessaries. The noise of a beetle and wedges and the splintering of wood was periodically heard from this direction; and at some little distance further a steady regular munching and the occasional scurr of a rope betokened a stable, and horses feeding within it.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781708697792
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire written by Thomas Hardy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, the last to be printed without his name, and the first of his great series of Wessex novels. Whilst Hardy originally thought of simply calling it The Mellstock Quire, he settled on a title taken from a song in Shakespeare's As You Like It (Act II, Scene V). PlotThe plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, the Mellstock parish choir, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled with a comely new schoolmistress, Fancy Day. The novel opens with the fiddlers and singers of the choir--including Dick, his father Reuben Dewy, and grandfather William Dewy--making the rounds in Mellstock village on Christmas Eve. When the little band plays at the schoolhouse, young Dick falls for Fancy at first sight. Dick, smitten, seeks to insinuate himself into her life and affections, but Fancy's beauty has gained her other suitors, including a rich farmer and the new vicar at the parish church.The vicar, Mr Maybold, informs the choir that he intends Fancy, an accomplished organ player, to replace their traditional musical accompaniment to Sunday services. The tranter and the rest of the band visit the vicar's home to negotiate, but reluctantly give way to the more modern organ. Meanwhile, Dick seems to win Fancy's heart, and she discovers an effective strategem to overcome her father's objection to the potential marriage. After the two are engaged secretly, however, vicar Maybold impetuously asks Fancy to marry him and lead a life of relative affluence; racked by guilt and temptation, she accepts. The next day, however, at a chance meeting with the as-yet-unaware Dick, surprised Maybold learns from him of his engagement to Fancy. The vicar follows by prompting her by letter, while expressing being taken aback by such news, to be honest to Dewy and withdraw her commitment to him if she indeed intended to become married to Maybold. Fancy responds by withdrawing her consent to marry Maybold and asking him to keep her initial acceptance of his proposal forever a secret. Maybold replies by urging her again to be honest with Dick and admit she accepted the vicar despite having already committed herself to the young tranter, assuring her she would be forgiven. However, as she marries Dewy who is so in love he readily dismisses what he previously (rightly) considered exhibits of her fickleness and rejoices at what he perceives at the prospect of a happy union based on honesty, given Fancy's effusive and seemingly frank admission to some (minor) infidelities, while he assumes they would never keep any secrets from each other, she resolves never to disclose the truly incontrovertible and damning evidence against her character in her having so readily accepted Maybold despite her engagement to Dewy.The novel ends with a humorous portrait of Reuben, William, Mr Day and the rest of the Mellstock rustics as they celebrate the couple's wedding day. The mood is joyful, but at the end of the final chapter, the reader is reminded that Fancy has married with "a secret she would never tell" (her final flirtation and brief engagement to the vicar). While Under the Greenwood Tree is often seen as Hardy's gentlest and most pastoral novel, this final touch introduces a faint note of melancholy to the conclusion. ...Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially 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.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533431516
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree, by Thomas Hardy a Novel written by Thomas Hardy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy, (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.Charles Dickens was another important influence.Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, the last to be printed without his name, and the first of his great series of Wessex novels. Whilst Hardy originally thought of simply calling it The Mellstock Quire, he settled on a title taken from a song in Shakespeare's As You Like It .The plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, the Mellstock parish choir, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled with a comely new school mistress, Fancy Day. The novel opens with the fiddlers and singers of the choir-including Dick, his father Reuben Dewy, and grandfather William Dewy-making the rounds in Mellstock village on Christmas Eve. When the little band plays at the schoolhouse, young Dick falls for Fancy at first sight. Dick, smitten, seeks to insinuate himself into her life and affections, but Fancy's beauty has gained her other suitors, including a rich farmer and the new vicar at the parish church. The vicar, Mr. Maybold, informs the choir that he intends Fancy, an accomplished organ player, to replace their traditional musical accompaniment to Sunday services. The tranter and the rest of the band visit the vicar's home to negotiate, but reluctantly give way to the more modern organ. Meanwhile, Dick seems to win Fancy's heart, and she discovers an effective strategem to overcome her father's objection to the potential marriage. After the two are engaged secretly, however, vicar Maybold impetuously asks Fancy to marry him and lead a life of relative affluence; racked by guilt and temptation, she accepts. The next day, however, at a chance meeting with the as-yet-unaware Dick, surprised Maybold learns from him of his engagement to Fancy. The vicar follows by prompting her by letter, while expressing being taken aback by such news, to be honest to Dewy and withdraw her commitment to him if she indeed intended to become married to Maybold. Fancy responds by withdrawing her consent to marry Maybold and asking him to keep her initial acceptance of his proposal forever a secret. Maybold replies by urging her again to be honest with Dick and admit she accepted the vicar despite having already committed herself to the young tranter, assuring her she would be forgiven. However, as she marries Dewy who is so in love he readily dismisses what he previously (rightly) considered exhibits of her fickleness and rejoices at what he perceives at the prospect of a happy union based on honesty, given Fancy's effusive and seemingly frank admission to some (minor) infidelities, while he assumes they would never keep any secrets from each other, she resolves never to disclose the truly incontrovertible and damning evidence against her character in her having so readily accepted Maybold despite her engagement to Dewy. The novel ends with a humorous portrait of Reuben, William, Mr. Day, and the rest of the Mellstock rustics as they celebrate the couple's wedding day. The mood is joyful, but at the end of the final chapter, the reader is reminded that Fancy has married with "a secret she would never tell" (her final flirtation and brief engagement to the vicar). While Under the Greenwood Tree is often seen as Hardy's gentlest and most pastoral novel, this final touch introduces a faint note of melancholy to the conclusion......
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492950974
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Under the Greenwood Tree written by Thomas Hardy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School By Thomas Hardy Complete English Classics Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, the last to be printed without his name, and the first of his great series of Wessex novels. Whilst Hardy originally thought of simply calling it The Mellstock Quire, he settled on a title taken from a song in Shakespeare's As You Like It (Act II, Scene V). Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). However, beginning in the 1950s Hardy has been recognized as a major poet; he had a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Phillip Larkin.
