Under the Greenwood Tree

novel by Hardy

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In Thomas Hardy: Early life and works
…brief and affectionately humorous idyll Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), Hardy found a voice much more distinctively his own. In this book he evoked, within the simplest of marriage plots, an episode of social change (the displacement of a group of church musicians) that was a direct reflection of events…
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