The Return of the Native

On a brooding stretch of heathland, ambition, love and misunderstanding pull a handful of lives toward disaster.

At a glance Thomas Hardy sets human longing against an indifferent landscape in one of his darkest… Egdon Heath broods over the story like a character in its own right, ancient and… Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native is a tragedy staged on that sombre ground. What it's about When a man returns from the wider world to his native heath with ideals…

When a man returns from the wider world to his native heath with ideals about a quieter, worthier life, his path crosses that of a restless, passionate woman who longs for escape from the very place he has embraced.