Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
If you have never read Under the Greenwood Tree, now is the time. This fine, new edition is a superb opportunity to discover a wonderfully enjoyable “comedy in chapters”. In Professor Phillip Mallett’s clear and to the point ‘Introduction’: Past and present, loss and gain, community ties and indivi...
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2013
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | If you have never read Under the Greenwood Tree, now is the time. This fine, new edition is a superb opportunity to discover a wonderfully enjoyable “comedy in chapters”. In Professor Phillip Mallett’s clear and to the point ‘Introduction’: Past and present, loss and gain, community ties and individual aspiration, are brought into a satisfying if provisional harmony, and most readers have seen the novel much as J. M. Barrie did in 1889, as not Hardy’s “greatest” book but “his most perfect”. ... |
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