AUTHOR’S PREFACE
The date at which the following events are assumed
to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and
1850, when the old watering-place herein called “Budmouth”
st...
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Biography EssayIn 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 reg...
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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 being...
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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...
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One of Hardy's unusual claims to distinction as a poet is that his first book of verse was not published until he was fifty-eight and had already achieved fame as a novelist. In the next thirty years,...
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A writer who expressed himself prolifically and successfully in both prose and verse, Thomas Hardy hoped to be remembered for his poetry. Toward the end of his life he remarked that his sole literary ...
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In the following essay, Kramer examines Hardy's experiments in tragic form in The Return of the Native.
The Return of the Native is Hardy's most imitative, most self-conscious, and ge...
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"Pessimism pervades Hardy's novel, The Return of the Native. Is this your view""
I believe that pessimism pervades Hardy's novel, The Return of the Native. There is much evidence to support this vi...
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While reading Thomas Hardy, one cannot help but notice his bleak writing style. Return of the Native marks itself as no exception to this rule; the inanimate antagonist, Egdon Heath, maintains a dou...
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"Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover." (Hardy...
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Return of the Native Book Notes is a free study guide on Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. Browse the summary below:
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Teaching The Return of the Native
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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. ...
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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. ...
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