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The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native

by Hardy, Thomas, Simon Gatrell, Nancy Barrineau, Margaret R. Higonnet

Book Details

Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK
Published: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 496
ISBN: 9780191500671
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💥Violence
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❤️Love & Romance
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🧠Mental Health
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🧙Fantasy / Supernatural
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🍷🚬Substance Use
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'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire' Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness. Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H.

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