"What depressed you?" "Life." This sums up every Thomas Hardy novel I have ever read. However, and this may shock and surprise you, ... I really liked this one. In contrast to Tess or Far from the Madding Crowd, I did not get exasperated with the characters, did not want to slap them or root fo...
The most irritating thing about cliches is that they are so often true. (This statement is also a cliche.) The old saw that kept popping into my head as I read The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, was "Marry in haste. Repent at leisure." The first half of this book is bad marriage after bad ma...
“Hurt so goodCome on baby, make it hurt so good” - John MellencampWUT? Well, reading Thomas Hardy novels always poses this kind of challenge. They hurt, and yet I keep coming back to him because they are indeed good and this kind of hurt is like a good exercise for your EQ. In term of language, I do...
This was the last book on the English I curriculum and while I am undecided as to whether I actually read it (namely because when you get to that end of the year the last books on the reading list tend to be the ones that get dumped in favour of study for the pending exams) I did have a tutor that w...
Oh my God I hated this. Got to page 70 and said, "Enough already!"Maybe I'm stupid? Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance?But... I read Dickens and loved it. De Sade and loved that too. Eugenie Grandet... check. So why didn't I love this one too? Oh my God how painfully this book is written! Wou...
bookshelves: classic, autumn-2010, published-1878, victorian, britain-england Read from November 09 to 10, 2010 Read by Nadia May. Unabridged. Workaday mp3 "Monty Python - Novel Writing: Thomas Hardy writes The Return Of the Native." publishers blurb - Set in Egdon Heath, a wild tract of count...
The hypnotic power of The Return of the Native can't be overstated. Everyone seems under some sort of spell. But the passions of the characters are secondary to the magnitude and majesty of the rugged heath they inhabit. Those who embrace their surroundings and give in to their circumstances may fin...
”I read a lot of classical books like The Return of the Native and all, and I like them,” says Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye. “I like that Eustacia Vye.”Catherine Zeta Jones as Eustacia VyeEustacia Vye is a young maid filled with longing for the city of Paris, for new experiences,fresh ...
Although this book is set in rural England in the 1800s, the story covers a universal theme of star crossed lovers who lives are doomed due to a few pivotal decisions. The heroine (or villain, depending on your outlook) of the story is Eustacia Vye, a dark haired beauty who longs to escape the rura...
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