The Return of the Native
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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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 fiance, 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."
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375757181 |
| ISBN 10 | 037575718X |
| Title | The Return of the Native |
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| Series | Modern Library Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2001-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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