- People with visual disabilities, fiction, Return of the native (Hardy, Thomas), Mothers and sons, fiction
The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- First published
- 1922
- Pages
- 470
- Publisher
- Macmillan, Independently Published, Wildside
- Editions
- 205
- Language
- Chinese, English, Arabic, und
- ISBN
- 9798788695785
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Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored trag
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