The Return of the Native

Name: The Return of the Native
Author: Hardy Thomas

by Hardy Thomas

Novel of passion and fate on Egdon Heath, a wild English landscape

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Hardy Thomas

Hardy's Wessex novels taken together constitute the most sustained regional fiction in English, mapping a disappearing rural England onto the map of human fate with tragic grandeur. The Woodlanders and The Return of the Native are as important as his two most famous novels.

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The WoodlandersTragedy of rural love and woodcraft set in the English countryside
Under the Greenwood TreeRural love story of two young people in a Wessex village
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