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The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics)
Thomas Hardy
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Paperback. Used paperback in very good condition. May have some light shelfwear.
The passionate Eustacia Vye feels herself imprisoned in the wild, isolated Egdon Heath ("`Tis my cross...and will be my death"), and although she longs for a love that will free her from it, her marriage only serves to trap her deeper within it. Her husband, Clem Yeobright, is the native of the novel's title, returned from Paris with a scheme for educating the heath-folk. Though Hardy's story is one of fatally tangled relationships, the greatest effect upon the reader is made by Egdon Heath itself: "The storm was its lover, and the wind its friend". This edition, retains the text ... Read more
The passionate Eustacia Vye feels herself imprisoned in the wild, isolated Egdon Heath ("`Tis my cross...and will be my death"), and although she longs for a love that will free her from it, her marriage only serves to trap her deeper within it. Her husband, Clem Yeobright, is the native of the novel's title, returned from Paris with a scheme for educating the heath-folk. Though Hardy's story is one of fatally tangled relationships, the greatest effect upon the reader is made by Egdon Heath itself: "The storm was its lover, and the wind its friend". This edition, retains the text ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Oxford Paperbacks
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192834065
SKU
KRF2231988
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