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The Return of the Native (Penguin Classics)

by Unknown Author

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Journey Trilogy #3496 pages1978Penguin ClassicsISBN 9780140431223
People with visual disabilities, fictionReturn of the native (HardyThomas)Mothers and sons, fictionSocial conditionsMarried people, fictionMate selection, fictionHeathlands, fictionAdultery, fictionWessex (England) -- FictionSocial life and customsMan-woman relationships, fictionCountry lifeManners and customsVillagesBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Wessex (england), fiction)Fiction"romancegeneral"
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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 Classics
Published
1978
Pages
496
ISBN
9780140431223

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.

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