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Read more heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams. Throughout the novel, The Return of the Native. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the. The famous rose breeder David Austin revisits his love of the Victorian author Thomas Hardy with this rose. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness. 'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire' Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'.

Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. Description for The Return of the Native Paperback.

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