Under the Greenwood Tree

Thomas Hardy

⏱ 8 minVictorian classic

A young village carrier courts Mellstock's pretty new schoolmistress while the old church string-band is quietly displaced by her organ. Hardy's sunniest, gentlest Wessex idyll.

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