The Return of the Native - Wordsworth Classics
“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?” The Return of the Native, 1878
Considered one of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, the story of 'The Return of the Native' is set against the background of the wild, haunted Egdon Heath, the heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" returned from Paris is Clym Yeobright, whose marriage to Eustacia Vye provides little comfort to either as Eustacia dreams of escape from the heath while Clym has ambitions to become a schoolmaster. This is a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction the role of chance in determining the course of a life.
Paperback - 1995
400 pages
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