The Return of the Native by Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 is presented here as a catalogued digital edition in the Historical & Social Novels section of ueffe.com.

Edition profile

The extracted text contains approximately 149,117 words, corresponding to an estimated 649 minutes of reading, and is divided into 51 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 16.5 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.070. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

Catalog context

The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Adultery -- Fiction, Didactic fiction, Love stories, Mate selection -- Fiction, Wessex (England) -- Fiction, Mothers and sons -- Fiction, People with visual disabilities -- Fiction, Heathlands -- Fiction. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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