Return of Native E Thomas hardy,
Publisher: Pocket
ISBN: 0671489178
Edition: Paperback; 1978-07-03
Summary:
In Hardy's The Return of the Native, Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the
wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest
for "music, poetry, passion, war." She marries Clym Yeobright, a
native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic
ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of
deceit and unhappiness. Early readers responded to Hardy's
"insatiably observant" descriptions of the heath, a setting that for
D. H. Lawrence provided the "real stuff of tragedy." For modern
readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the
modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world
as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our
dreams. This edition has the only critical text based on the
manuscript and first edition, and without the later changes that
substantially altered Hardy's original intentions. The new
introduction by critic Margaret R. Higonnet is the most critically
up-to-date discussion of the novel available and considers the mythic
nature of the heath opposed to the modernity of the characters, the
economic vocabulary of value and investment, the novel's classical
structure, and Hardy's cinematic techniques.
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