Editions
- paperback· 221 pp9781079766158
First published 1872
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire
a rural painting of the dutch school
By Thomas Hardy
Heat level
Sweet
Under the Greenwood Tree is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy's most gentle and pastoral novels.