UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE

by Thomas Hardy

Overview

Contents: PART THE FIRST - WINTER: Chapter I - Mellstock-Lane, Chapter II - The Tranter's, Chapter III - The Assembled Quire, Chapter IV - Going the Rounds, Chapter V - The Listeners, Chapter VI - Christmas Morning, Chapter VII - The Tranter's Party, Chapter VIII - They Dance more Wildly, Chapter IX - Dick Calls at the School. PART THE SECOND - SPRING: Chapter I - Passing by the School, Chapter II - A Meeting of the Quire, Chapter III - A Turn in the Discussion, Chapter IV - The Interview with the Vicar, Chapter V - Returning Home Ward, Chapter VI - Yalbury Wood and the Keeper's House, Chapter VII - Dick makes Himself Useful, Chapter VIII - Dick Meets his Father. PART THE THIRD - SUMMER: Chapter I - Driving out of Budmouth, Chapter II - Further along the Road, Chapter III - A Confession, Chapter IV - An Arrangement. PART THE FOURTH - AUTUMN: Chapter I - Going Nutting, Chapter II - Honey-Taking, and Afterwards, Chapter III - Fancy in the Rain, Chapter IV - The Spell, Chapter V - After Gaining Her Point, Chapter VI - Into Temptation, Chapter VII - Second Thoughts. PART THE FIFTH - CONCLUSION: Chapter I - 'The Knot there's No Untying', Chapter II - Under the Greenwood Tree.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789387867505
Publisher:	Maven Books
Publication date:	07/01/2021
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Phillip Mallett has published widely on Hardy and has edited The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Return of the Native for Norton. He is the editor of Thomas Hardy in Context (CUP, 2012), and of the Thomas Hardy Journal and the Hardy Society Journal. He has written the introduction to Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford (OUP, 2010).

Date of Birth:

June 2, 1840

Date of Death:

January 11, 1928

Place of Birth:

Higher Brockhampon, Dorset, England

Place of Death:

Max Gate, Dorchester, England

Education:

Served as apprentice to architect James Hicks

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Under the Greenwood Tree; Variants in punctuation and styling; End-of-line hyphenation; Editorial emendations; Appendix A. Hardy's preface to the Wessex Edition; Appendix B. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Poor Man and the Lady; Appendix C. Detailed analysis of the manuscript; Appendix D. Chapter-division in the manuscript; Appendix E. Watermarks in the manuscript; Appendix F. The compositors of the first edition; Appendix G. Robson's compositors in A Pair of Blue Eyes; Appendix H. Differences between the first and second editions; Appendix I. Printing orders for Under the Greenwood Tree Published by Chatto and Windus and Macmillan; Appendix J. Frontispieces; Appendix K. Description of substantive editions; Explanatory notes.