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The Return of the Native

"O delivery my heart from this fearful gloom and loneliness," prays the passionate Eustacia Vye, who detests her life amid the dreary environs of Egdon Heath. With the return of Clym Yeobright from Paris, her escape for the heath and its brooding isolation appears to be at hand. Clym finds in Eustacia the same dark mystery of his native heath, and his irresistible attraction to them both leads to a clash of idealism and realism.
Thomas Hardy's timeless tale of a romantic misalliance embodies his view of character as fate and underscores the tragic nature of ordinary human lives. Despite his grim outlook Hardy charms readers with the warmth and vitality of his characters, his loving portraits of the English countryside, and his realistic re-creations of local dialect. Shakespearean in its intricate plotting and deft irony, The Return of the Native ranks among the author's greatest works.

Reprint of the original, 1878) edition.
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"O delivery my heart from this fearful gloom and loneliness," prays the passionate Eustacia Vye, who detests her life amid the dreary environs of Egdon Heath. With the return of Clym Yeobright from Paris, her escape for the heath and its brooding isolation appears to be at hand. Clym finds in Eustacia the same dark mystery of his native heath, and his irresistible attraction to them both leads to a clash of idealism and realism.
Thomas Hardy's timeless tale of a romantic misalliance embodies his view of character as fate and underscores the tragic nature of ordinary human lives. Despite his grim outlook Hardy charms readers with the warmth and vitality of his characters, his loving portraits of the English countryside, and his realistic re-creations of local dialect. Shakespearean in its intricate plotting and deft irony, The Return of the Native ranks among the author's greatest works.

Reprint of the original, 1878) edition.
victorian literature; english lit; british lit; literary fiction; classic; historical fiction; womens lit; romance; dramatic; melodramatic; passion; slice of life; life and lifestyles; brooding isolation; literary; tragedy; relatable characters; human experience; nature; symbolism; dark mystery; irresistible attraction; clash of idealism and realism; ordinary human lives; everyday life; life struggles; coming of age; human condition; vitality; european countryside; irony; local dialect; english novelist;century english;guy fawkes;english literature;model woman;suffering woman;red dye;rebellious woman;greenwood tree;serial publication;definite article;fictional wessex;pious woman;audio tapes;artistic greatness;west country;madding crowd;physical environment;total immersion;lengthy description;saturday afternoon;monty python;naturalism;soap opera;d'urbervilles;19th century;bauers;durbervilles;vinn;dunn;belgravia;dorsetshire;furze;anti-christianity;woodlanders;handbook;nave;bonfires;casterbridge;thomasina;reddleman;tess;1878;pentagon;moors;eleventh;novelist;jude;pagan;passions;darkly;tragedies;sheep;sixth;alan rickman;damon;george woodcock;paris;clym;america;mexico;tess of the d'urbervilles;books on 19th centuries;books on tess;books on rebellious women;books on saturday afternoons;books on guy fawkes;books on d'urbervilles;books on passions;books on naturalisms;books on furzes;books on eleventh;books on dorsetshires;books on casterbridges;books on total immersions;books on english novelists;books on belgravia;books on handbooks;books on durbervilles;books on bonfires;books on pious women;books on bauers;books on physical environments;books on dunn;books on serial publications;books on suffering women;suffer woman;books on woodlanders;books on model women;books on greenwood trees;books on madding crowds;books on monty pythons;books on soap operas;books on naves;books on vinns;books on audio tapes;books on west countries;books on english literatures