The Return of the Native

The fact that Tennyson's poetry belongs to the first class does not in the least prevent the totally different poetry of Browning from being ranked equally high.

Joseph Vance is a very different kind of novel from The Return of the Native, but both awaken our wonder and delight.

There are some books that inspire us by their art, and there are others that inspire us by their ideas.

Turgenev was surely a greater artist than Tolstoy, but Anna Karenina is a veritable piece of life.

He was a great man who wrote novels.

Immediately after the publication of Desperate Remedies, which seemed to teach him, as Endymion taught Keats the highest mysteries of his art, Mr. Hardy entered upon a period of brilliant and splendid production.

In three successive years, 1872, 1873, and 1874, he produced three masterpieces, Under the Greenwood Tree, A Pair of Blue Eyes, and Far from the Madding Crowd, followed four years later by what is perhaps his greatest contribution to literature, The Return of the Native.

Even in literary careers that last a long time, there seem to be golden days when the inspiration is unbalked by obstacles.

The fact that Tennyson's poetry belongs to the first class does not in the least prevent the totally different poetry of Browning from being ranked equally high.

Joseph Vance is a very different kind of novel from The Return of the Native, but both awaken our wonder and delight.

There are some books that inspire us by their art, and there are others that inspire us by their ideas.

Turgenev was surely a greater artist than Tolstoy, but Anna Karenina is a veritable piece of life.

He was a great man who wrote novels.

Immediately after the publication of Desperate Remedies, which seemed to teach him, as Endymion taught Keats the highest mysteries of his art, Mr. Hardy entered upon a period of brilliant and splendid production.

In three successive years, 1872, 1873, and 1874, he produced three masterpieces, Under the Greenwood Tree, A Pair of Blue Eyes, and Far from the Madding Crowd, followed four years later by what is perhaps his greatest contribution to literature, The Return of the Native.

Even in literary careers that last a long time, there seem to be golden days when the inspiration is unbalked by obstacles.