The Return of the Native

HARDY, Thomas

Published by Franklin Library,

About this Item

Pennsylvania, : Franklin Library, , 1980. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ben F. Wohlberg. Edition and printing not stated. No notable flaws.Franklin Library produces renowned works of literature by History's greatest authors, in beautiful editions that will be the cornerstone of your home library. Timeless works, each bound in faux leather with raised hubs on the spine, and featuring gold stamped titles and cover designs, magnificently illustrate, decorative end sheets, and gilded page edges.Here is your opportunity to own a wonderful work of literature which can provide reading enjoyment for generations to come.Edition and printing not stated.Binding is tight, book does not appear to have been fully opened. One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiance , Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life. An unmarked, clean, collectible copy! 418 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Return of the Native
• Publisher: Franklin Library,
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Ben F. Wohlberg
• Condition: New