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    The Return of the Native (dramatic reading)
    The Return of the Native (dramatic reading)
    The Return of the Native (dramatic reading)
    Audiobook15 hours

    The Return of the Native (dramatic reading)

    Written by Thomas Hardy

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook


    Clym Yeobright returns home to Egdon Heath, a scattered collection of houses on the isolated Wessex moors, and is caught up in a "love pentagon" which includes: his cousin, Thomasin Yeobright; the shadowy inn-keeper, Damon Wildeve; the controversial and romantic Eustacia Vye; and the mysterious reddleman, Diggory Venn, whose skin is stained completely red from his work. This work has all the well-known marks of Thomas Hardy: the Wessex landscape, a choice of lovers, a wedding gone wrong, a particularly shy 30-something man, and a woman with an independent spirit. But, The Return of the Native is unique in its pagan undertones - the first five books take place over a year and a day, starting on All Hallow's Eve, and hints of magic and witchcraft. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

    Characters:

    Narrator: Bob Neufeld
    Clym Yeobright: Tadhg
    Eustacia Vye: Amanda Friday
    Damon Wildeve: Chris Cartwright
    Thomasin Yeobright: Rapunzelina
    Diggory Venn: Chuck Williamson
    Mrs. Yeobright: Michele Eaton
    Grandfer Cantle and "Saint George": alanmapstone
    Timothy Fairway: tovarisch
    Humphrey, Bonfire Boy, Party Guest, Raffle Woman, Inn Girl and Rachel: Elizabeth Klett
    Olly Dowden and Charley: Charlotte Duckett
    Susan Nunsuch: Beth Thomas
    Christian Cantle: TriciaG
    Sam: ToddHW
    Captain Vye,"Doctor", Driver, and Pedlar: Patti Cunningham
    Johnny Nunsuch: CaprishaPage
    Vye Servant and"Saracen": Libby Gohn
    "Father Christmas": David Olson
    "Valiant Soldier": Kristingj
    Chapman and Surgeon: Karen Savage
    Nurse: Availle

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    The Return of the Native (dramatic reading)
    Author

    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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