| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781599866093 | | Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing, LLC. | | Publish Date: 1/24/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 206844798 | | Item#: | | Pages: 252 |
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| | | Under the Greenwood Tree is a novel written by author Thomas Hardy. This popular late 19th century novel is about the activities of a group of musicians, including Dick Dewy, who becomes romantically entangled with love interest, Fancy Day. Dewy isn't aware that his relationship is based on deception, as she is also being courted by another. This novel is also popular due to its illustration of Victorian era technologies. Under the Greenwood Tree is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of Thomas Hardy, and also for those discovering his works for the first time.
| Author Bio| Thomas Hardy | | Born in Dorset, Thomas Hardy wrote about his native region all his life, calling it "Wessex" in his novels. Hardy was apprenticed to an architect at 15, but began to write novels in his spare time when he was in his 20s. His first novel was rejected by George Meredith, a reader for the publisher he sent it to, but he was considered promising, and Meredith encouraged him to try again. Hardy, who had also been writing poetry, gave it up temporarily for fiction, and his first novel was published three years later. He abandoned architecture for the life of a writer, producing a series of masterpieces that ended with "Jude the Obscure" in 1896. That novel's frankness and unsparing bleakness met with such a hostile reception that Hardy returned to writing poetry, which he continued to produce until the end of his life. His novels are strongly determinist, demonstrating the ways in which the forces of nature shape human existence: People are at the mercy of their passions; fate and chance rule their lives, and the only heroic path is endurance. His poetry contains similar themes, and all of his work is permeated with a melancholy that often turns to tragedy. |
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