The Return Of The Native
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Against the brooding, untamed expanse of Egdon Heath — a landscape so vivid it becomes a character unto itself — Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native chronicles the tragic collision of ambition, passion, and fate in rural Victorian England. At its centre stands Eustacia Vye, a proud and restless beauty who dreams of escaping the heath's suffocating isolation, and Clym Yeobright, the returning native whose idealistic vision of a simple life on the moor places him on an inevitable collision course with the woman he loves. Hardy constructs a masterwork of Victorian fiction, weaving themes of entrapment, desire, and the indifference of nature into a narrative of devastating emotional power. His prose is at once lyrical and merciless, rendering the heath not merely as a backdrop but as a moral force that shapes and ultimately judges its inhabitants. This Franklin Library edition, illustrated by Ben F. Wohlberg, presents one of the 19th century's most enduring novels in a format worthy of its literary stature — a reminder that some landscapes, once entered, are impossible to leave behind.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Against the brooding, untamed expanse of Egdon Heath — a landscape so vivid it becomes a character unto itself — Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native chronicles the tragic collision of ambition, passion, and fate in rural Victorian England. At its centre stands Eustacia Vye, a proud and restless beauty who dreams of escaping the heath's suffocating isolation, and Clym Yeobright, the returning native whose idealistic vision of a simple life on the moor places him on an inevitable collision course with the woman he loves. Hardy constructs a masterwork of Victorian fiction, weaving themes of entrapment, desire, and the indifference of nature into a narrative of devastating emotional power. His prose is at once lyrical and merciless, rendering the heath not merely as a backdrop but as a moral force that shapes and ultimately judges its inhabitants. This Franklin Library edition, illustrated by Ben F. Wohlberg, presents one of the 19th century's most enduring novels in a format worthy of its literary stature — a reminder that some landscapes, once entered, are impossible to leave behind.