Under the Greenwood Tree

or

The Mellstock Quire:
A Rural Painting of the Dutch School

by

Thomas Hardy

eBooks@Adelaide
2006

Derived from the 1912 Macmillan and Co. edition.

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Last updated Wednesday October 11 2006.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Author’s Note to the 1912 edition

Part the First—Winter

  1. Mellstock-Lane
  2. The Tranter’s
  3. The Assembled Quire
  4. Going the Rounds
  5. The Listeners
  6. Christmas Morning
  7. The Tranter’s Party
  8. They Dance More Wildly
  9. Dick Calls at the School

Part the Second—Spring

  1. Passing by the School
  2. A Meeting of the Quire
  3. A Turn in the Discussion
  4. The Interview with the Vicar
  5. Returning Home Ward
  6. Yalbury Wood and the Keeper’s House
  7. Dick Makes Himself Useful
  8. Dick Meets His Father

Part the Third—Summer

  1. Driving Out of Budmouth
  2. Further Along the Road
  3. A Confession
  4. An Arrangement

Part the Fourth—Autumn

  1. Going Nutting
  2. Honey-Taking, and Afterwards
  3. Fancy in the Rain
  4. The Spell
  5. After Gaining Her Point
  6. Into Temptation
  7. Second Thoughts

Part the Fifth: Conclusion

  1. ‘The Knot There’s No Untying’
  2. Under the Greenwood Tree

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