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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

About 782 pages (234,464 words) in 13 products

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Project Gutenberg eBook
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The Return of the Native eBook
128,056 words, approx. 427 pages
The complete online text of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.


Author Biography

Name: Thomas Hardy
Birth Date: June 2, 1840
Death Date: January 11, 1928
Place of Birth: Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, author, novelist, poet, dramatist

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Biography of Thomas Hardy
1424 words, approx. 4.7 pages
The works of the English novelist, poet, and dramatist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) unite the Victorian and modern eras. They reveal him to be a kind and gentle man, terribly aware of the pain human beings suffer in their struggle for life. Thomas Hardy pres...
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Biography of Thomas Hardy
12938 words, approx. 43.1 pages
In the later years of his long life, Thomas Hardy was probably the most famous English man of letters of his time, his reputation extending throughout the world. He is now generally regarded as both a major late-Victorian novelist and a major twentieth-c...
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Biography of Thomas Hardy
12533 words, approx. 41.8 pages
In the later years of his long life, Thomas Hardy was probably the most famous English man of letters of his time, his reputation extending throughout the world. He is now generally regarded as both a major late-Victorian novelist and a major twentieth-c...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Return of the Native Information
2,990 words, approx. 10 pages
The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the serial Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly instalments from January to December of 1878. Due to the novel's...


News and Journals
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The Stranger
The Return of the Natives
10/04/2007: 947 words, approx. 3 pages
The Landscape Design of the Olympic Sculpture Park Is a Major Failure. What's Blocking the Views and Killing the Plants? A Sentimental Allegory. Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, designed by the New York-based firm of Weiss/Manfredi, is a triumph of urban reclamation....
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Irish Voice
Return of the Native
10/10/1995: 776 words, approx. 3 pages
Debbie McGoldrick Irish Voice 10-10-1995 Return of The Native. WEST Kerry, that glorious part of Ireland which is the "next parish to America," has produced its share of great writers, most notably from the Blasket Islands. There, a succession of men...
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The New York Observer
Distilled in Brooklyn\'d1 A Fine Historical Novel
4/16/2006: 1,315 words, approx. 4 pages
We treasure and enjoy some novelists because they offer us a world, and let us feel we can enter it like original inhabitants. It’s a going home, even if we’ve never been there before. I’ve heard of Americans so intoxicated by the novels of Thomas...
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The New York Observer
Distilled in Brooklyn- A Fine Historical Novel
4/16/2006: 1,313 words, approx. 4 pages
We treasure and enjoy some novelists because they offer us a world, and let us feel we can enter it like original inhabitants. It’s a going home, even if we’ve never been there before. I’ve heard of Americans so intoxicated by the novels of Thomas...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Dale Kramer
9,312 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Kramer examines Hardy's experiments in tragic form in The Return of the Native.
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Return of the Native: Pessimism Prevails
2,409 words, approx. 8 pages
Reviews the novel Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy. Explores the pessimistic attitudes and views that Thomas Hardy portrays. Examines main character Egdon Heath.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Mrs. Yeobright's Attitude in Return of the Native
691 words, approx. 2 pages
Describes how in Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native, Mrs. Yeobright affects the role of minor character playing a big part in much of the reader's interpretation of the work. She also shows the reader just how much nature affects each character in the book.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Eustacia in Return of the Native -- Me, Myself, and I
209 words, approx. 1 pages
An overview of Eustacia's actions in Thomas Hardy's novel Return of the Native. These actions illustrate the dramatic, self-centered nature of Eustacia's personality and her ignorance of other people's feelings.


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