Name: Return of the Native (Modern Library)
SKU: 1609833
Price: 29.75 EUR
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Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780375757181

portada Return of the Native (Modern Library)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Hardy

Introduction by

Alexander Theroux

Publisher

Modern Library

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

426

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.7x12.7x2.5 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

037575718X

ISBN13

9780375757181

Synopsis "Return of the Native (Modern Library) "

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 fiancé, 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."

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced in both his novels and his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth

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