The Return of the Native by Hardy

The Return of the Native by Hardy

'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.

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ISBN 13	9780199537044
ISBN 10	0199537046
Titre	The Return of the Native
Auteur	Thomas Hardy
Série	Oxford World's Classics
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Oxford University Press
Année de publication	2008-08-14
Nombre de pages	496
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