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The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
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- Hardcover
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Easton Press (1st thus, 1978). Dark green leather with green moiré endpapers (faded around edges), green ribbon marker attached. Gilt titles, decorations, all edges. Archival quality paper. Hubbed spine. Prior owner's blind embossed seal on title page.
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.
Thomas Hardy OM (1840 – 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.
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.
Thomas Hardy OM (1840 – 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.
Synopsis
The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the serial Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly installments from January to December of 1878. Due to the novel's controversial themes, Hardy had some difficulty finding a publisher; reviews, however, though somewhat mixed, were generally positive. In the twentieth century, The Return of the Native became one of Hardy's most popular novels.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Return of the Native
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- Illustrator
- Wood Engravings by Agnes Miller Parker
- Format/Binding
- Leatherbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket issued with this edition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Collector's Edition, 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 416
- Size
- 9.25x6.25x1.5 inches
- Weight
- 2.30 lbs
- Keywords
- Easton Press, Thomas Hardy, Agnes Miller Parker
- Bookseller catalogs
- Easton Press editions; Literature;
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