The Return of the Native
On a heath the book treats as older and more durable than anyone living on it, a young woman who has never seen a city keeps a bonfire burning as a signal to a man she does not much respect, because he is the only exit available. The man the neighbourhood has been waiting for comes home from the diamond trade in Paris meaning to stay and open a school for the heath children, which is the last thing she wants of him. Built in five books on the pattern of classical tragedy, with unity of place kept by the heath itself, it is the most deliberately Greek of Hardy's novels.
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- companion to ↑ Far from the Madding Crowd
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