Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 03/06/2010
ISBN: 9780099518983
Length: 512 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm
Weight: 404g
RRP: £6.99
'Tremendous...utterly absorbing' Independent
Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence. But when their relationship falters and her old lover Damon Wildeve reappears with an unexpected inheritance, Eustacia is faced with a series of decisions upon which multiple lives depend. In a world where misunderstandings can be fatal, Hardy’s atmospheric tragedy moves inevitably towards a disastrous climax on the brooding wilds of Egdon Heath.
'Hardy's novels hold a Shakespearean power of creating a unique world' John Bayley
See also: Jude the Obscure
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 03/06/2010
ISBN: 9780099518983
Length: 512 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm
Weight: 404g
RRP: £6.99
Throbs with a very Victorian sense of geologies, pre-histories and even astronomy; you can feel the planet moving under the feet
Inimitably brooding style
Besides my complete identification with its heroine, I loved the sheer relentless power of the writing.
Splendid
The Return of the Native is . . . thoughtful, valedictory, poetic, tinged with the somberness of an uncertainty which seems to well up from the depths of the author's own subconscious . . . Hardy's sense of the tragic life of human beings, mere small fragments of consciousness in a vast uncaring universe, comes directly from his own youthful awareness of the place and circumstances described in the novel.