The Return of the Native (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781731706195)

Book Excerpt: during winter darkness, tempests, and mists. Then Egdon was aroused to reciprocity; for the storm was its lover, and the wind its friend. Then it became the home of strange phantoms; and it was found to be the hitherto unrecognized original of those wild regions of obscurity which are vaguely felt to be compassing us about in midnight dreams of flight and disaster, and are never thought of after the dream till revived by scenes like this.It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature--neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony. As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance. It had a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities.This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday. Its condition is recorded therein as that of heathy, furzy, briary wilderness--"Bruaria." Then folRead More

Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN-10: 1731706197
ISBN-13: 9781731706195
Publisher: Simon & Brown
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2018
Pages: 436
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.2
Point Value: 42
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 5996 / Return of the Native