Under the Greenwood Tree (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781974576739)

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 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

Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN-10: 1974576736
ISBN-13: 9781974576739
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2017
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.39d