Celebrated Translations -- Return Home (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: (British) Thomas Hardy, translated by Wang Zhiguang
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Publishing Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Return is a representative "character and environment novel" created by the renowned British writer Thomas Hardy. Set against the Egdon Heath, a vast and timeless moorland in the southwest of England, the work depicts the tragic fates of five young men and women. The female protagonist, Tess, is one of the most successfully portrayed female characters in modern British novels, while the setting of Egdon Heath is a model of landscape description. It marks an important milestone in the maturation of Hardy's novelistic art and is considered his best novel. Thomas Hardy was one of the writers with the most readers during the Victorian era, a significant representative of critical realism in late 19th-century British novels, and the "father of modern poetry" for his bold exploration and pioneering in the 20th century. He pioneered many themes of 20th-century novels, and his "character and environment novels" represent the highest achievement of his realistic creations. As his novels are often set in the vast rural areas of Wessex in southwest England, he is also hailed as one of the most outstanding pastoral novelists in Britain.