The Return of the Native Paperback / softback
by Thomas Hardy
Edited by Simon (Professor of English, University of Georgia) Gatrell
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
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'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.
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
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- Pages:496 pages, one map
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2008
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- ISBN:9780199537044
