3.5
Under the Greenwood Tree, Our Exploits at West Poley and Short Stories
by Thomas Hardy
Better known for the haunting melancholy of his tragic novels, Hardy(1840-1928) was also a great humorist and it is this aspect of his writing which is brought to the fore in The Lighter Hardy.This volume includes the novel Under the Green-Wood Tree and the story 'Our Exploits at West Poley'. Rustic lovers, skylarking schoolboys and a village choir are among those who people the pages of The Lighter Hardy;all are observed with Hardys usual acuteness and, here, a measure of indulgence as Hardy celebrates the quirks of human behavi
BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)WESSEX (ENGLAND)_FICTIONFICTION_SHORT STORIES (single author)
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHEREveryman
LENGTH278
LANGUAGEEN
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
3.5
Under the Greenwood Tree, Our Exploits at West Poley and Short Stories
by Thomas Hardy
Better known for the haunting melancholy of his tragic novels, Hardy(1840-1928) was also a great humorist and it is this aspect of his writing which is brought to the fore in The Lighter Hardy.This volume includes the novel Under the Green-Wood Tree and the story 'Our Exploits at West Poley'. Rustic lovers, skylarking schoolboys and a village choir are among those who people the pages of The Lighter Hardy;all are observed with Hardys usual acuteness and, here, a measure of indulgence as Hardy celebrates the quirks of human behavi
BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)WESSEX (ENGLAND)_FICTIONFICTION_SHORT STORIES (single author)
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHEREveryman
LENGTH278
LANGUAGEEN
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
