The Return of the Native

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The Return of the Native is written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin UK. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0141908173 (ISBN 10) and 9780141908175 (ISBN 13).

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In this novel, Hardy's tragic vision is powerfully and narrowly focussed on Egdon Heath and the men and women who live on it. Set against the backdrop of the Heath and the impersonal and eternal forces it represents, the fates of Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Clym Yeobright - the returning 'native' - and others are inexorably played out.