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The love of a rustic Romeo for a femme fatale of the fields; the motley village band which acts a raucous chorus to their romance; the skylarking boys who dam a subterranean stream, and manipulate the destiny of a community. Hardy has pierced irrationalities of existence and the blind perversity of human nature, sketching his vision here through quirks of character and absurd ironies of fortune.
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Under the Greenwood Tree: Our Exploits at West Poley and Humorous Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper)),Thomas Hardy,James Gibson,Everyman Paperback Classics,0460875752,General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,19th century fiction,English,Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century
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