“Back in college I wrote a paper about the use of music in Hardy's novels, and this little book was filled with English folk music references. In fact there is a wealth of description of English country life, a way of life Hardy saw was passing away. This little romance is much lighter than say, Far From the Madding Crowd, or Tess, or Jude the Obscure. If you like your English romances a little less dark, try this one. Look at it as training wheels for those weightier novels, or maybe just...”

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