The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy, Alexander Theroux

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English

Modern Library
15 March 2001

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

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 fiance, 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.

As Alexander Theroux asserts in his Introduction, Hardy was ""committed to the deep expression of

nature's

ironic chaos and strange apathy, even hostility, toward man.""

By: Thomas Hardy
Introduction by: Alexander Theroux
Imprint: Modern Library
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 352g
ISBN: 9780375757181
ISBN 10: 037575718X
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 15 March 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Return of the Native

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