4.0
The Return of the Native
Hardy was part of the English naturalist movement. He wrote short stories, novels and poetry. The story begins on Guy Fawkes Night with the people of Heath lighting bonfires in the dark night. A man stained red from his work marking sheep picks up a young woman. The themes in this novel are sexual politics, desire, societal demands and an elicit affair. Although these are common themes in modern books they were quite scandalous in the Victorian era
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERStandard Publications, Incorporated
LANGUAGEEN
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 tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
4.0
The Return of the Native
Hardy was part of the English naturalist movement. He wrote short stories, novels and poetry. The story begins on Guy Fawkes Night with the people of Heath lighting bonfires in the dark night. A man stained red from his work marking sheep picks up a young woman. The themes in this novel are sexual politics, desire, societal demands and an elicit affair. Although these are common themes in modern books they were quite scandalous in the Victorian era
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERStandard Publications, Incorporated
LANGUAGEEN
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 tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
