By Thomas Hardy
THE go back OF THE local used to be written in the direction of the start of Hardy's occupation as a novelist and will be certainly one of his such a lot consultant works. during this novel, Hardy's tragic imaginative and prescient is powerfully and narrowly focussed on Egdon Heath and the lads and girls who survive it. Set opposed to the backdrop of the Heath and the impersonal and everlasting forces it represents, the fates of Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Clym Yeobright - the returning 'native' - and others are inexorably performed out.
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