Mellstock is a small Dorset village with strong opinions about church music. When the new schoolmistress, Fancy Day, arrives and promptly captivates every man in the parish, the village's band of folk musicians finds itself contending with two threats at once: the vicar's plan to replace them with a modern organ, and the distraction of watching Dick Dewy fall helplessly in love. Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) is Hardy's first major novel and his most quietly contented one. Organised by the seasons, rooted in rural English life, and genuinely funny, it’s a portrait of a tight-knit community on the cusp of change. A new world is encroaching, but slowly. For now, there is courtship, there is snow on a clear Christmas Eve night and wind in the trees, and there is music.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-29
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor300
FörlagUnnamed Press
ISBN9781961884953

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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was a renowned English novelist and poet of the Victorian era, famous for his tales set in the fictional rural region of "Wessex". Originally an architect, he achieved fame with novels like Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure before focusing on poetry. Lily King is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels—Heart the Lover, Writers & Lovers, Euphoria, Father of the Rain, The English Teacher, and The Pleasing Hour—as well as the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award, the Maine Book Award, and a Whiting Award; has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Story Prize; and has been longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. She lives in Portland, Maine. Alice Elliott Dark is the author the novels Fellowship Point and Think of England, and two collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry: Prize Stories, among others. She is the director of Rutgers-Newark MFA program. Allison Miriam Smith is a co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics. She is also an Acquiring Editor and Publishing & Publicity Manager for Unnamed Press. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California where she was an assistant curator for the USC Doheny Library George Cassady Lewis Carroll Special Collection. She later went on to earn a Masters in 18th & 19th c. Literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, working nights at the library. Before Unnamed Press, she was a bookseller at Skylight Books. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.