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The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

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One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life.

As Alexander Theroux asserts in his Introduction, Hardy was "committed to the deep expression of [nature's] ironic chaos and strange apathy, even hostility, toward man."

Synopsis:

An enduring tale of love, desire, and the universal longing both to leave one's home and to return to it, this novel is one of Hardy's greatest and most affecting works. Hardy's passionately drawn characters and his vivid rendering of their valiant but ultimately ineffective struggle in destiny's web result in a masterpiece of melancholy brilliance.

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ISBN:
9780375757181
Introduction:
Theroux, Alexander
Author:
Theroux, Alexander
Introduction by:
Theroux, Alexander
Introduction:
Theroux, Alexander
Author:
Hardy, Thomas
Author:
Theroux, Alexander
Publisher:
Modern Library
Location:
New York
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Mothers and sons
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Country life
Subject:
England
Subject:
Adultery
Subject:
Married people
Subject:
Love stories
Subject:
Didactic fiction
Subject:
Wessex
Subject:
Mate selection
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Modern Library Classics
Series Volume:
105-846
Publication Date:
20010231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
1 MAP
Pages:
448
Dimensions:
8.01x5.15x1.00 in. .82 lbs.

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