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A poetic and compassionate novel of 19th Century England.
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This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy's most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moon where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a clandestine meeting with her lover, Damon Wildeve. But Eustacia's dreams of escape are not to be realized--neither Wildeve nor the retuming native Clym Yeobright can bring her salvation. Injured by forces beyond their control, Hardy's characters struggle vainly in the net of destiny. In the end, only the face of the lonely heath remains untouched by fate in this masterpiece of tragic passion, a tale that perfectly epitomizes the author's own unique and melancholy genius.
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- PublisherSignet Classics
- Publication date1959
- ISBN 10 0451524713
- ISBN 13 9780451524713
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages416
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THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE (Signet Classics, CE 2471)
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Signet Classics, New Yor, NY
(1959)
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ISBN 13: 9780451524713
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. First Edition, 27th Printing. BRAND NEW Copy w/a whisper of wear to softcover. 6th novel from English, Victorian novelist & poet Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928). First serialized 1878 in the Belgravia magazine, known for sensationalism, to become one of Hardy's most successful novels. A tale of complex entanglements. Novel opens with Diggory Venn riding onto the heath-covered Edgon countryside with Thomasin Yeobright, who is distraught as her marriage to Damon Wildeve is suspended by an error in the marriage certificate. Actually, problems were generated by Wildeve --- infatuated with Eustacia Vye, Wildeve was using propsed wedlock to Thomasin simply to make Eustacia jealous. When Venn learns of the romance between Eustacia and Wildeve, his proposal to Thomasin irejected, he resolves to intervene on her behalf, which he continues throughout the novel. His attempts to persuade Eustacia to allow Wildeve to marry Thomasin comes to naught. Into this chaos, enter other protangonists of family members each with emotional demands, generating further issued. An account of mis-marriages, mis-alignments, and woes. Albeit Victorian, a human tale. Seller Inventory # 018920
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