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The Return of the Native
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The Return of the Native Mass market paperbound - 1959

by Thomas Hardy; Afterword by Horace Gregory

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The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.

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Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels—Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure—he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet’s Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy.

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  • Title The Return of the Native
  • Author Thomas Hardy; Afterword by Horace Gregory
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Classics, New York
  • Publication date July 1, 1959
  • ISBN 9780451524713 / 0451524713
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.83 x 4.18 x 0.74 in (17.35 x 10.62 x 1.88 cm)
  • Reading level 1040
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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