![]() ![]() The main characters live in virtual isolation in their widely separated dwellings. There can be no agricultural work and very little in the way of social context on this desolate terrain of heath and furze. The effect is to establish as primary to the novel the dark, brooding environment in which the action takes place. ![]() The eight chapters that immediately follow are essentially set outdoors and at night. ![]() His opening chapter is entirely devoted to a meditation on the strange bleakness of Egdon Heath, where the story is to unfold. Once again Hardy showed his willingness to experiment. It was published as a three-volume novel in the November of that same year. Eventually accepted by the less distinguished Belgravia it appeared in monthly instalments between January and December 1878. The Return of the Native, which Hardy wrote with serial publication in mind, was turned down by both the Cornhill Magazine (which had published his two previous novels) and by Blackwoods. ![]()
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