The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Fiction Classics

<p><strong>The Return of the Native (1878) followed Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) as the second of Thomas Hardy's great Wessex novels. </strong>Thomas Hardy began and ended his writing career as a poet. In between he wrote a number of books that many readers find emotionally-wrenching but which are considered among the classics of 19th Century British literature including Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Readers will experience Hardy's realism in The Return of the Native but here it is tempered with romance and redemption.</p>