The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly installments from January to December 1878. Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native (1878) centers on two young lovers trapped in an unhappy marriage because they marry for the wrong reasons. The book highlights the problem with romantic idealism, and how we often end up in prisons of our own making. Hardy was an English novelist ...
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The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly installments from January to December 1878. Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native (1878) centers on two young lovers trapped in an unhappy marriage because they marry for the wrong reasons. The book highlights the problem with romantic idealism, and how we often end up in prisons of our own making. Hardy was an English novelist and poet. The novel's title The Return of the Native refers to the character Clym Yeobright, who returns home to his native Wessex in southwest England after working for a period in Paris.
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Return of the Native is Hardy at his very best, it is beautifully dark and dangerous, from the start to almost the very end. The characters are sublime yet believable, and the heath (the most important character of them all) positively oozes suspence and unpredictablilty. The turbulate relationships scream out disaster, and fill any reader with a sense of forboding and a desperate wish for a happy ending. However the 'Happy' end is not so comforting when it comes as it seems strangly out of place with the rest of the novel. Overall Return of the native presents a beautiful and lost world from before the wars. well worth a read dispite the lenghty sentences and the vast descriptions that may put some off.