Under the Greenwood Tree (Hardy)

Under the Greenwood Tree (Hardy)  (1872)  by Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. The plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled with a comely new school mistress, Fancy Day. Love triumphs, although she marries with "a secret she would never tell" - namely, that she was also courted by the local vicar, Parson Maybold. — Excerpted from Under the Greenwood Tree on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE

or

THE MELLSTOCK QUIRE
A RURAL PAINTING OF THE DUTCH SCHOOL

by Thomas Hardy

Contents

• Preface

Part 1

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9

Part 2

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8

Part 3

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4

Part 4

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7

Part 5

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1928, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.