The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1999)

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'You are ambitious, Eustacia - no, not exactly ambitious, luxurious. But she is to be disappointed, for Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia's. Author: Hardy, Thomas.

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Thomas Hardy's tragic vision of a love struggling to overcome prejudice and rejection, The Return of the Native is edited in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Penny Bouhmelha. Against the lowering background of Egdon Heath, fiery Eustacia Vye passes her days, wishing only for passionate love. She believes that her escape from Egdon lies in marriage to Clym Yeobright, home from Paris and discontented with his work there. But Clym wishes to return to the Egdon community; a desire which sets him in opposition to his wife and brings them both to despair. Based on the first edition of the text, this edition includes detailed tes of later revisions made by Hardy, glossary, bibliography and useful chrology of author's life. In her introduction Penny Bouhmelha identifies the literary and classical allusions in Hardy's text, in particular the parallels with Flaubert's Madame Bovary and with the Oedipus story. In so doing she demonstrates Hardy's claim for tragic status for ordinary human lives and the ways that the characters in the vel - especially the ill-fated lovers and Damon Wildeve - spoil their chances to master their own destinies. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), born Higher Brockhampton, near Dorchester, originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer. Though he saw himself primarily as a poet, Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century's major vels: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), and Jude the Obscure (1895). Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure, he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse, The Dynasts. If you enjoyed The Return of the Native, you might like Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, also available in Penguin Classics. 'The greatest tragic writer among the English velists' Virginia Woolf

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-10
0140435182
ISBN-13
9780140435184
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96803369

Product Key Features

Format
Paperback
Language
English

Additional Product Features

Author(s)
Thomas Hardy
Introduction by
Penny Boumelha
Place of Publication
London
Content Note
Illustrations, Maps
Format Details
B-Format Paperback
Author Biography
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was a prolific novelist and poet whose works include 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' and 'Jude the Obscure'.Penny Bouhmelha is Professor of English at the University of Adelaide and has published work on Hardy and women.
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Subject
General & Literary Fiction
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Date of Publication
24/06/1999
Edited by
Tony Slade