The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics)

Hardy, Thomas; Barrineau, Nancy; Higonnet, Margaret R.

ISBN 10: 0199537046 / ISBN 13: 9780199537044

Published by Oxford University Press, 2009

About this Item

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199537046
• ISBN 13: 9780199537044
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

'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.