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York Notes Advanced - The Return of the Native

York Notes Advanced - The Return of the Native
By Kathryn Simpson, Thomas Hardy

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Key Features:

  • Study methods
  • Introduction to the text
  • Summaries with critical notes
  • Themes and techniques
  • Textual analysis of key passages
  • Author biography
  • Historical and literary background
  • Modern and historical critical approaches
  • Chronology
  • Glossary of literary terms

    • Product Details

    • Amazon Sales Rank: #123791 in Books
    • Published on: 2000-08-24
    • Original language: English
    • Binding: Paperback
    • 128 pages

    Customer Reviews

    Hardy on song4
    I have a friend who hates Thomas Hardy! Okay this might not be the most earth shattering revelation you will ever read but his rationale is interesting. When I ask him why he always says 'he is too depressing'. As a critical theory this has some merits but I admire Hardy and I'll tell you why 'Native', as I lovingly refer to it, is one of my favourite books. The native of the title is Clym Yeobright returning home to educate the locals having forsaken, much to his mother's horror, a lucrative diamond trade in Paris.He meets Eustacia Vye, they fall in love and...well it ends in tragedy. What makes Hardy such a fascinating novelist is that fiction, for him, is/was not escapism, but rather a means to analyse the world in which his characters lived, and died. A frequent criticism of this novel is its over reliance on coincidence/fate, and therefore, so the argument goes, it is a flawed classic. A confusing term really since can anything that is flawed be considered simultaneously perfect? Despite this claim I find great comfort in a novel that,very simply put, acknowledges that life is is 'rich' in disappoinments, that we are at the mercy of our own natures, that most people act for very selfish reasons and that death is the end. No God, heaven, just death. This probably means I am a cynic(or a realist)but nevertheless, read it, think about it,and enjoy it.With all its obvious flaws there is something strangely compelling about 'native'.

    Excellent help in As levels!!4
    I purchased this book as a help for my A level exams, and it was brilliant! It gives you loads of tips, loads of brilliant explinations of important bits in the book, and its an all round must have!!

    For any student.5
    I bought this book for help during my As levals. So far its been day one and a brilliant help. The book summerises chapters/characters and hidden impressions that Hardy has applied. Altogether I think this is a very helpful book. Thank you York Notes.