Under the Greenwood tree

The Mellstock rustics - among whom the romance of Dick Dewy is played out - provide some of Hardy's most memorable characters: from Leaf the simpleton to gamekeeper Day with his eloquent silences, to the singular Mrs Day - *She d'belong to that class of womankind that become second wives, a rum class rather.'

The evocative power of this minor masterpiece derives from its being a vivid and authentic re-creation of Hardy's own childhood environment. He modelled the villagers on people he had known intimately, and their talk, full of observation and humour, is a constant delight.

Utdrag ur boken:
'I never had no head, never! that's how it happened to happen, hee-hee!'

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