The Return of the Native

Name: The Return of the Native
Author: Thomas Hardy

by Thomas Hardy

Novel of passion and fate set on the dark heights of Egdon Heath

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Thomas Hardy

Hardy was the last great Victorian novelist, whose tragic vision of rural life in Wessex combined pastoral beauty with pitiless social determinism. Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure scandalized Victorian readers and remain among the greatest English novels.

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