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| Original Title: | The Return of the Native |
| ISBN: | 037575718X (ISBN13: 9780375757181) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Diggory Venn, Thomasin Yeobright, Eustacia Vye, Damon Wildeve, Clym Yeobright |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
Thomas Hardy
Paperback | Pages: 448 pages Rating: 3.86 | 33265 Users | 1435 Reviews
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Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed, for Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia’s. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them, in particular Damon Wildeve, Eustacia’s former lover, Clym’s mother and his cousin Thomasin. The Return of the Native illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies.
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| Title | : | The Return of the Native |
| Author | : | Thomas Hardy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 448 pages |
| Published | : | February 13th 2001 by Modern Library (first published 1878) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature. 19th Century. Historical. Victorian. European Literature. British Literature. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 33265 Users | 1435 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books The Return of the Native
From one of Monty Python's albums:Commentator: Hello, and welcome to Dorchester, where a very good crowd has turned out to watch local boy Thomas Hardy write his new novel "The Return Of The Native", on this very pleasant July morning. This will be his eleventh novel and the fifth of the very popular Wessex novels, and here he comes! Here comes Hardy, walking out towards his desk. He looks confident, he looks relaxed, very much the man in form, as he acknowledges this very good natured bankThe story is set in Victorian England on Egdon Heath, a fictional place in the fictional region of Wessex in southwestern England. It focuses on six individuals--two cousins (Clym Yeobright and Thomasin Yeobright), Mrs. Yeobright (the mother of Clym and the aunt of Thomasin) and those whom Clym and Thomasin might marry (Eustacia Vye, Damon Wildeve and Digory Venn). The question asked is who will marry whom. Will marriage bring happiness? Can one, should one struggle against ones inner desires,
I kept falling asleep at the beginning of this book. Finally I gave up. I mentioned to my friend Rich that I'd stalled out, and he quoted his high school English teacher, whose words predicted Rich's own experience of the novel: "For the first fifty pages, we would think Return of the N the worst book we had ever read and after that it would seem the best book we had ever read." So I pressed on, and sure enough, around page fifty the book grabbed me and didn't let go till I finished. One of the
There used to be a lot more words in the world. Now we're all about short, blunt sentences. So obvious. So boring.
I loved this book so much that I stayed up until 4:20 am just to finish it and see what happened at the end.I have to admit reading Thomas Hardy is no walk in the park for me. I never considered myself a total slouch in vocabulary, but after reading two of his books, I feel as if I have the vocabulary of a second grader !!Many people ( based on the ratings here ) have called his work lugubrious and word heavy and I have to agree. He uses words that you absolutely never hear in conversation and
Hardys paean to the doom-laden Dorset hills, featuring more wuthering heights than boatload of Brontës, an epic tragic crescendo, and a feisty heroine lassoed into a straightjacket of Victorian sexual conventions. The stars of this novel are the roiling word-sculptures of tumult Hardy makes from the unforgiving Wessex hills and peaks, that occupy the first quarter of the novel, ahead of the protagonists tardy arrival. Clym Yeobright, neither young nor that bright, bags the ravenous stunner
So, what do I say about this extraordinary novel. I have a feeling this is going to turn into a story.I'd like to begin by saying that this was my Mother's. Previously, I have read Tess of the D'Urbervilles (also because of my mom who narrated it to me when I was younger) by Hardy and I was bewitched by his picturesque poetic prose, and I have Far from the Madding Crowd waiting on my shelf (I watched the movie with my mom). I love Classics, my love for them is unbounded. ❤So, about The Return of
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