{"id":56309,"date":"2021-11-21T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/book\/the-return-of-the-native\/"},"modified":"2021-11-21T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T22:00:28","slug":"the-return-of-the-native","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/book\/the-return-of-the-native\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Native"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A haunting tale of romantic self-deception, The Return of the Nativefocuses on mismatched lovers who see in each other only what they want to see, and decidedly not what is actually there.<\/p>\n<p>Clym Yeobright, the native of the title, returns to Hardy\u0083??s fictional Egdon Heath determined to be a force for social progress. Dazzled by the beauty of Eustacia Vye, he imagines they\u0083??re soul mates, woos and wins her, and enters into what is at first a passionate marriage. He soon discovers that what she really wants is a passport to a more exciting and sophisticated life, away from provincial England. Surrounding them are Clym\u0083??s mother, strongly opposed to his marriage; Damon Wildeve, in love with Eustacia but married to Clym\u0083??s cousin, Thomasin; and the oddly ambiguous observer Diggory Venn, whose frustrated love for Thomasin turns him into either a guardian angel or a jealous manipulator\u0083??or perhaps both. This stew of curdled love and conflicting emotions can only boil over into tragedy, and the book\u0083??s darkly ironic ending marks it as both a classically Victorian novel and a forerunner of the modernist fiction that followed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31870,"parent":0,"template":"","book_type":[3,7],"book_author":[42],"class_list":["post-56309","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book_type-classic","book_type-literature","book_author-thomas-hardy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/56309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_type?post=56309"},{"taxonomy":"book_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_author?post=56309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}