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title: "Return of the Native (Wordsworth Classics)"
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# Return of the Native (Wordsworth Classics)

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Review: The book has arrived! - This was a book, so the questions do not apply. The book is finally here, in perfect condition. Thanks.
Review: Five Stars - Item is as describe. No problems with product and/or service.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 1853262382 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #226,374 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5,600 in Classic Literature & Fiction |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (165) |
| Dimensions  | 5 x 0.9 x 7.7 inches |
| Edition  | Classic Edition |
| ISBN-10  | 9781853262388 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1853262388 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Publication date  | January 4, 1998 |
| Publisher  | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The book has arrived!
*by A***R on May 3, 2024*

This was a book, so the questions do not apply. The book is finally here, in perfect condition. Thanks.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by S***F on July 29, 2018*

Item is as describe. No problems with product and/or service.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A novel that I always wanted to read - 54 years in the attempt
*by T***Y on December 26, 2017*

Well, I finally finished it. Maybe better, I finally got beyond the first couple of chapters and read it through to the end. This was an assigned text in one of my high school English course. I think it was my Grade 12 class with Mr. Lloyd in the 1963-64 school year. I would have been 15 turning 16 is that class. I have absolutely no recollection of how the novel was taught beyond my inability to get through it as a 15-year-old. 54 years later, I just recently turned 79 and the novel has much more relevance to me now at the end of my life than then at the beginning. This novel is the only Hardy that I have read but the Internet speaks of a fatalism in it. I was puzzled when I read that as I was reading the novel but realized it is an apt description of the novel. It is not fatalistic in that people's lives are foredoomed but fatalistic in that people's lives make little difference. The heath was there before them and the heath will be there after they have gone. Eustachia and Windeve die and then their lives are taken up, interpreted and indeed molded as stories by the heath people. The barrow people. the Celtic tribes, the Romans ... lived on and left their traces on the heath. The current residents of the heath are not a culmination of history but just part of the process of the heath that carries on forever in terms of human lives. In this I see hardy as anticipating some of the concepts of postmodernism as I understand them. As a 70 year old, this novel has greater resonance for me than as a 15 year old in grade 12. maybe that is why I cannot recall any of the teaching of it so long ago. However, I remembered this novel and thought of it for all of those 54 intervening years. The teaching of it must have influenced me profoundly. it is a novel that I always wanted to read. I've read it now and I am glad that I did. It is a novel of depth that teaches a lot about life.

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