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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1878)
Today we turn to Thomas Hardy's unforgiving, elemental world of Wessex to examine his 1878 novel, The Return of the Native. The entire psychological and dramatic mood of the book is dominated by Egdon Heath, a massive, ancient, and somber stretch of land that acts less as a setting and more as a powerful, brooding character itself. The central conflict arises from the return of Clym Yeobright to his birthplace on the Heath, rejecting a fashionable career in Paris for the life of a teacher among the common folk. . His marriage to the beautiful, restless, and ambitious Eustacia Vye—who despises…
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