Return Home - (Full Translation)

Author: Thomas Hardy
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This book was published in 1878 and is a significant achievement in the mid-career of Thomas Hardy. Hardy, the great novelist of late 19th-century Britain and the great poet of the early 20th century, has long been familiar and admired by Chinese readers. His representative works, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, The Three Strangers, and The King's Lear, have been introduced to China in Chinese translations since the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout his creative career, Hardy consciously adhered to the literary principle of "reflecting life, exposing life, and critiquing life," while also consciously pursuing continuous innovation in art. The Return of the Native is a manifestation of this dual consciousness in Hardy's creative work.