The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)

Hardy, Thomas

ISBN 10: 037575718X / ISBN 13: 9780375757181

Published by Modern Library, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Return of the Native (Modern Library ...

Publisher: Modern Library

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the world s Best Books . Its paperback series feature treasured classics, major translations of great works, and rediscoveries of keen literary and historical merit. Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. Competitive prices, coupled with exciting cover design make these an ideal gift to be cherished by the avid reader. 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

Review:

"This is the quality Hardy shares with the great writers...this setting behind the small action the terrific action of unfathomed nature."
--D. H. Lawrence

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