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The Return of the Native
Hardcover
Classic FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781434479082
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Jul 11 2025
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Set on the desolate Egdon Heath, this brooding novel follows the entangled lives of villagers whose desires clash with societal expectations and natural forces. As romantic rivalries and personal ambitions simmer beneath the surface, the return of a former resident upends fragile relationships and awakens old regrets. With its stark landscapes and deeply human conflicts, the story probes themes of fatalism, identity, and the tension between tradition and change in Victorian rural life.
This is the quality Hardy shares with the great writers...this setting behind the small action the terrific action of unfathomed nature. --D. H. Lawrence
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