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能在誠品買到Thomas Hardy 《The Return of the Native》（A Norton Critical Edition）真是十分開心。我尤其貪看有關Diggory Venn的片段。根據Lord David Cecil的說法，原本Thomas Hardy並不打算讓Diggory和Thomasin結婚，因為”He had conceived Venn as a sort of benevolent, mysterious spirit , who appears, from no one knows where, to save Thomasin at the crises of her fortunes, and then, once more, vanishes into obscurity…….A happy ending conflicted with the aesthetic image he had formed of Venn.”幸好後來出版商和Thomas Hardy說，如果”Not only Clym ad Eustacia, but the virtuous Venn and Thomasin would fail to attain happiness. This would have meant that the book ended sadly for everyone concerned in it, and the public would not stand for this.”所以Thomas Hardy才改寫了結局。