- Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Classics; Reprint edition (Feb 1 1982)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553212699
- ISBN-13: 978-0553212693
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 2 x 17.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,357,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This is the quality Hardy shares with the great writers...this setting behind the small action the terrific action of unfathomed nature."—D. H. Lawrence
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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 moor 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 returning 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.
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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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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