
The Return of the Native
Hardy(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 14. August 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-19-953704-4 (ISBN)
Description
'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire'
Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.
Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.
This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition, and without the later changes that substantially altered Hardy's original intentions.
Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.
Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.
This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition, and without the later changes that substantially altered Hardy's original intentions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Illustrations
one map
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
352 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-953704-4 (9780199537044)
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Thomas Hardy | Simon Gatrell
The Return of the Native
E-Book
02/2005
OUP eBook
€5.49
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Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native
Edited by Simon Gatrell, Nancy Barrineau, and Margaret R. Higonnet
Book
02/2005
Oxford University Press
€7.42
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