false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181279049m/1136414.jpg 32650 108 One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life. As Alexander Theroux asserts in his Introduction, Hardy was "committed to the deep expression of [nature's] ironic chaos and strange apathy, even hostility, toward man." 3140534 book 1878 The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) total:3202|5:813|4:1205|3:824|2:260|1:100| 3202 11977 4315 243 0 8 false false Thu Mar 06 03:08:03 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 02 04:42:31 -0700 2009
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 f...more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 20:09:42 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 07:08:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 18:51:33 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 23 11:21:30 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Fri Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 21:53:41 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 21:31:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 19:04:10 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 12:22:51 -0700 2008 Poor Thomas Hardy. He was pursued by a fate almost as cruel as that which crushes his characters. As a boy he was too well educated to pursue a quiet life on the heath, when he grew up to his novels were too mercilessly c...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Sep 08 08:40:13 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 08:40:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 17:33:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 17:43:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 23 14:27:34 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 14:42:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 18:16:15 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 18:28:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1982 Sun May 17 10:32:50 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 10:55:52 -0700 2009 The Mayor of Casterbridge so much that I went right into this one. The relentless breaking of the character in the first book made me like this one a bit better. In The Return of the Native, the protagonist's hope is not destroyed at the end. (I think it's in this b...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Aug 29 05:49:28 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 06:42:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 true false Sat May 30 17:09:17 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 09:00:50 -0700 2009
One of Hardy's cl...more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Jul 07 21:56:55 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 22:03:13 -0700 2009 " Misfortune had struck them gracefully, cutting off their erratic histories with a catastrophic dash, instead of, as with many, attenuating each life to an uninteresting meagreness, through long years of wrinkles, neglect and de...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 19:47:51 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 15:40:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Mon Jun 01 15:00:06 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 14:45:29 -0700 2009 Far from the Madding Crowd, I took a course in Thomas Hardy back in the mid-1980s, and loved it. My first experience with The Return of the Native was in this class, although I had wanted to read it long before then because of the recommendation from another ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 08:08:40 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 12:17:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 30 17:56:13 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 18:00:24 -0700 2009 Wuthering Heights and a less romantic vision. Hardy's novel illustrates his dilemma over w...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jan 18 12:48:31 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 13:07:41 -0800 2009
Thomas Hardy had the magical ability to describe people from the inside out: each character is different from what...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 11:36:49 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 30 14:29:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 10:59:53 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 10:59:53 -0700 2008
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