num_pages: 552
description: Eustacia Vye longs to escape from Egdon Heath, but the man she chooses to save her longs to stay. Out of their struggle, the unfulfilled passion of his heroine, and the daily rhythms of late-nineteenth-century rural life, Hardy builds a drama fully worthy of the magnificent stage on which he places it.The Return of the Native is dominated by the brooding presence of Egdon Heath, located in Thomas Hardy’s imaginary Wessex, and in no other book did Hardy’s extraordinary feeling for landscape blend so perfectly with his austere, stoic vision of human fate.Once more he treats his favorite theme of the mismatched couple with masterly pathos and understatement.
language: English
title: The Return of the Native
titlecomplete: The Return of the Native
characters: Eustacia Vye, Damon Wildeve, Thomasin Yeobright, Diggory Venn, Clym Yeobright
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 37865
places: Dorset, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Everyman's Library