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Return of the Native

Return of the Native

Return of the Native Paperback - 2010

by Hardy, Thomas

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  • Title Return of the Native
  • Author Hardy, Thomas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Classics
  • Publication date 2010-07-05
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR004714769
  • ISBN 9780099518983 / 0099518988
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5 x 1.3 in (19.81 x 12.70 x 3.30 cm)
  • Reading level 1040
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 3

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Reader reviews for Return of the Native

From the publisher

Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence. But when their relationship falters and her old lover Damon Wildeve reappears with an unexpected inheritance, Eustacia is faced with a series of decisions upon which multiple lives depend. In a world where misunderstandings can be fatal, Hardy's atmospheric tragedy moves inevitably towards a disastrous climax on the brooding wilds of Egdon Heath.

Media reviews

"Throbs with a very Victorian sense of geologies, pre-histories and even astronomy; you can feel the planet moving under the feet."
--Daily Telegraph

"Inimitably brooding style."
--The Times

"Besides my complete identification with its heroine, I loved the sheer relentless power of the writing. What other writer would start a novel with six solid pages of description without introducing a single character? Like D H Lawrence, Hardy isn't to everyone's taste: too much blighted love and atheistic pessimism. To me, ensconced in a convent thick with incense, confession and church twice on Sundays, a little atheistic pessimism was a welcome antidote."
--Maeve Haran, Independent

About the author

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.

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