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Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
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Description for Return of the Native
Paperback. Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence. But when their relationship falters Eustacia turns to her old lover Damon Wildeve, leading to a disastrous climax on the brooding wilds of Egdon Heath. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 358.
'Tremendous...utterly absorbing' Independent
Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence. But when their relationship falters and her old lover Damon Wildeve reappears with an unexpected inheritance, Eustacia is faced with a series of decisions upon which multiple lives depend. In a world where misunderstandings can be fatal, Hardy’s atmospheric tragedy moves inevitably towards a disastrous climax on the brooding wilds of Egdon Heath.
'Hardy's novels hold a Shakespearean power of creating a unique world' John Bayley
See also: Jude the Obscure
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099518983
SKU
V9780099518983
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99-99
About Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840. His father was a stonemason. He was brought up near Dorchester and trained as an architect. In 1868 his work took him to St Juliot's church in Cornwall where he met his wife-to-be, Emma. His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected by publishers but Desperate Remedies was published in 1871 and this was rapidly followed by Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). He also wrote many other novels, poems and short stories. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was published in 1891. His final novel was Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy was awarded the Order of Merit in 1920 and the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1912. His wife died in 1912 and he later married his secretary. Thomas Hardy died 11 January 1928.
Reviews for Return of the Native
Throbs with a very Victorian sense of geologies, pre-histories and even astronomy; you can feel the planet moving under the feet
Daily Telegraph
Inimitably brooding style
The Times
Besides my complete identification with its heroine, I loved the sheer relentless power of the writing.
Maeve Haran
Independent
Splendid
Daily Telegraph
The Return of the Native is . . . thoughtful, valedictory, poetic, tinged with the somberness of an uncertainty which seems to well up from the depths of the author's own subconscious . . . Hardy's sense of the tragic life of human beings, mere small fragments of consciousness in a vast uncaring universe, comes directly from his own youthful awareness of the place and circumstances described in the novel.
John Bayley
Daily Telegraph
Inimitably brooding style
The Times
Besides my complete identification with its heroine, I loved the sheer relentless power of the writing.
Maeve Haran
Independent
Splendid
Daily Telegraph
The Return of the Native is . . . thoughtful, valedictory, poetic, tinged with the somberness of an uncertainty which seems to well up from the depths of the author's own subconscious . . . Hardy's sense of the tragic life of human beings, mere small fragments of consciousness in a vast uncaring universe, comes directly from his own youthful awareness of the place and circumstances described in the novel.
John Bayley