Return of the Native

Name: Return of the Native
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780099518983

by Unknown Author

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Journey Trilogy #3512 pages2010Penguin Random HouseISBN 9780099518983

Fiction

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About this book

The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 2010
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9780099518983
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.