Better known for the haunting melancholy of his tragic novels,Hardy(1840-1928) was also a great humorist and it is this aspect of his writing which is brought to the fore in The Lighter Hardy.This volume includes the novel Under the Green-Wood Tree and the story 'Our Exploits at West Poley'. Rustic lovers,skylarking schoolboys and a village choir are among those who people the pages of The Lighter Hardy;all are observed with Hardys usual acuteness and,here,a measure of indulgence as Hardy celebrates the quirks of human behaviour.
- ISBN10 0460875752
- ISBN13 9780460875752
- Publish Date 7 October 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 March 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English