The Return of the Native - Brossura

Hardy, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199537046 ISBN 13: 9780199537044

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2008

Riassunto

'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire'

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, 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 a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition.

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Book by Hardy Thomas Simon Gatrell Nancy Barrineau Margare

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199537046
• ISBN 13: 9780199537044
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496
• Redattore: Gatrell Simon, Barrineau Nancy
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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