Under the Greenwood Tree
The Mellstock parish musicians, who have played the church services on strings for three generations, learn that the new vicar means to replace them with an organ and a young schoolmistress to play it. A tranter's son falls for her on sight and joins the deputation to the vicarage largely to see her again, while a prosperous farmer and the vicar himself arrive at the same idea. Hardy's slightest and sunniest book, subtitled a rural painting of the Dutch school, and the first to work the country ground he would later name Wessex.
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- takes its title from ↑ As You Like It
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