Which of Thomas Hardy's novel which opens on Guy Fawkes Night takes place on Egdon Heath?
Egdon Heath Egdon Heath Egdon Heath is a fictitious area of Thomas Hardy's Wessex inhabited sparsely by the people who cut the furze (gorse) that grows there. The entire action of Hardy's novel "The Return of the Native" takes place on Egdon Heath, and it also features in "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and the short story "The Withered Arm" (1888). The area is rife with witchcraft and superstition. Hardy located the Dorsetshire heath in his maps, the end-papers for editions of his work published in his lifetime, and in "The Return of the Native", as an amalgam of scattered areas of moorland
Egdon Heath (Holst) Holst considered the work his most perfectly realised composition, an opinion shared by Ralph Vaughan Williams and others. But it has never had the profile of works such as "The Planets" and "St Paul's Suite". In 1934 Edwin Evans speculated on why the public had not yet shared the composer's assessment: Egdon Heath (Holst) Egdon Heath, Op. 47, H. 172, subtitled "A Homage to Thomas Hardy", is a tone poem by Gustav Holst, written in 1927. Holst considered it his most perfectly realised composition. Egdon Heath is a fictional place in the equally fictional region of Wessex in the south-west