'Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?' A deeply flawed heroine, thwarted ambition, complex desires and relationships and Hardy's recurring theme of the conflicting needs and demands of society and human nature make this another classic tale from Thomas Hardy.
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'Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?' A deeply flawed heroine, thwarted ambition, complex desires and relationships and Hardy's recurring theme of the conflicting needs and demands of society and human nature make this another classic tale from Thomas Hardy.
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Return of the Native is Hardy at his very best, it is beautifully dark and dangerous, from the start to almost the very end. The characters are sublime yet believable, and the heath (the most important character of them all) positively oozes suspence and unpredictablilty. The turbulate relationships scream out disaster, and fill any reader wi... th a sense of forboding and a desperate wish for a happy ending. However the 'Happy' end is not so comforting when it comes as it seems strangly out of place with the rest of the novel. Overall Return of the native presents a beautiful and lost world from before the wars. well worth a read dispite the lenghty sentences and the vast descriptions that may put some off.
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