Thomasin Yeobright is about to marry Damon Wildeve, but due to a problem with the marriage license, the wedding doesn't go through as planned and she's horribly embarrassed. Or, as Amanda put it so succinctly, "an 1800s soap opera set on Egdon Heath." Let's see. This is one of Hardy's earliest novels, and it's essentially a love quadrangle about three men and two women and who's going to end up with whom, and how many lives are messed up in the interim. Just an excuse to include a photo of Alan Rickman.īut I digress. In fact, the first chapter is kind of pastoral and descriptive, and nothing actually happens, but I just listened to his delicious voice read. Seriously, Alan Rickman could read the telephone book and I would listen. (Also because it was one of a dozen or so books left on my Classics Club list.) ALAN RICKMAN (be still, my heart!) I gave it a try. And since Amanda from The Zen Leaf had told me a kazillion times that The Return of the Native was her favorite Hardy, and that there was a wonderful audiobook version narrated by. So, basically, since I read and LOVED Far From the Madding Crowd, I am officially no longer afraid of Thomas Hardy.
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