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`I can recommend to anyone...Oxford University Press's Worlds's Classics edition.' Daily Mail
'very nicely presented' Borehamwood and Radlett Advertiser --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
'very nicely presented' Borehamwood and Radlett Advertiser --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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A new edition of Thomas Hardy's timeless novel of two pairs of mismatched lovers.
One of Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and discontented with his work there. Clym wishes to remain in Egdon, however--a desire that sets him in opposition to his wife and brings them both to despair. Behind the narrative of The Return of the Native lie the tragic fates of Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Oedipus, and in writing the novel Hardy endowed his ordinary characters with the status of tragic heroes, seen especially in the ill-fated lovers and Damon Wildeve, who spoil their chances to master their own destinies. The Introduction and Notes featured in this new edition incorporate the most up-to-date scholarship on Thomas Hardy.
Edited with Notes by Tony Slade with an Introduction by Penny Boumelha.
One of Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and discontented with his work there. Clym wishes to remain in Egdon, however--a desire that sets him in opposition to his wife and brings them both to despair. Behind the narrative of The Return of the Native lie the tragic fates of Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Oedipus, and in writing the novel Hardy endowed his ordinary characters with the status of tragic heroes, seen especially in the ill-fated lovers and Damon Wildeve, who spoil their chances to master their own destinies. The Introduction and Notes featured in this new edition incorporate the most up-to-date scholarship on Thomas Hardy.
Edited with Notes by Tony Slade with an Introduction by Penny Boumelha.
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A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Read the first page
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A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Ponderous and epherial story of life on the heath.,
This review is from: The Return of the Native (Mass Market Paperback)
This novel is very long and very tedious in it's detail and desciption of events. Not for the casual reader.
3.0 out of 5 stars
For the Hardy fan only,
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This review is from: Penguin Classics Return Of The Native (Paperback)
Someone else stole my thunder when describing the novel as 'ponderous'. Short on story and long on description with a heavy, heavy narrative style. I generally love Hardy's menacing style - describing a landscape and a world that isn't overly concerned with ease or fairness. The trouble is that few characters here are worthy of our sympathy. Even Thomasin, the suffering wife, has little spark or alternately, true pathos. The peripheral characters, content with their lot and truly at ease in the bleak landscape, fare better than the thinkers or brooders or lovers....True Hardy, of course, but not my first choice. Read Tess or the Mayor of Casterbridge instead, unless you're a true Hardy fan.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Yummy voice...,
By Julie P. "Movie nut" (Montreal-Nord, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Return of the Native (Audio CD)
I'll admit it: I bought this CD for one reason only: Alan Rickman's voice. Yes, I am an addict.The book itself is slightly boring but the reading is top notch and Alan Rickman is in great form. Wonder if he read any more books?
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