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`I can recommend to anyone...Oxford University Press's Worlds's Classics edition.' Daily Mail
'very nicely presented' Borehamwood and Radlett Advertiser --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
'very nicely presented' Borehamwood and Radlett Advertiser --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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The native of Thomas Hardy's 1878 novel "The Return of the Native" is Clym (Clement) Yeobright, a young man who gives a successful career as a diamond merchant in Paris to return to his native Egdon Heath to become a Schoolmaster and to help educate poor and ignorant children. Clym's character is contrasted by Eustacia Vye, a beautiful young woman who longs to escape Egdon Heath for a more glamorous life elsewhere. Hearing of Clym's return she pursues him with hopes of him taking her away to that more glamorous life which she seeks. A captivating novel of the Victorian era, Hardy's "The Return of the Native" dramatically underscores the idea that regardless of our desires, in the end we are truly helpless to escape our destiny.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Ponderous and epherial story of life on the heath.,
This review is from: The Return of the Native (Mass Market Paperback)
This novel is very long and very tedious in it's detail and desciption of events. Not for the casual reader.
3.0 out of 5 stars
For the Hardy fan only,
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This review is from: Penguin Classics Return Of The Native (Paperback)
Someone else stole my thunder when describing the novel as 'ponderous'. Short on story and long on description with a heavy, heavy narrative style. I generally love Hardy's menacing style - describing a landscape and a world that isn't overly concerned with ease or fairness. The trouble is that few characters here are worthy of our sympathy. Even Thomasin, the suffering wife, has little spark or alternately, true pathos. The peripheral characters, content with their lot and truly at ease in the bleak landscape, fare better than the thinkers or brooders or lovers....True Hardy, of course, but not my first choice. Read Tess or the Mayor of Casterbridge instead, unless you're a true Hardy fan.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Yummy voice...,
By Julie P. "Movie nut" (Montreal-Nord, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Return of the Native (Audio CD)
I'll admit it: I bought this CD for one reason only: Alan Rickman's voice. Yes, I am an addict.The book itself is slightly boring but the reading is top notch and Alan Rickman is in great form. Wonder if he read any more books?
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