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The Return of the Native

(Penguin Classics)

By Thomas Hardy

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| Paperback | 9780140435184

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A new edition of Thomas Hardy's timeless novel of two pairs of mismatched lovers.

One of Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate lContinue

A new edition of Thomas Hardy's timeless novel of two pairs of mismatched lovers.

One of Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and discontented with his work there. Clym wishes to remain in Egdon, however--a desire that sets him in opposition to his wife and brings them both to despair. Behind the narrative of The Return of the Native lie the tragic fates of Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Oedipus, and in writing the novel Hardy endowed his ordinary characters with the status of tragic heroes, seen especially in the ill-fated lovers and Damon Wildeve, who spoil their chances to master their own destinies. The Introduction and Notes featured in this new edition incorporate the most up-to-date scholarship on Thomas Hardy.

Edited with Notes by Tony Slade with an Introduction by Penny Boumelha.

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  • http://mypaper2.pchome.com.tw/news/brsuny/3/1288281133/…

    能在誠品買到Thomas Hardy 《The Return of the Native》(A Norton Critical Edition)真是十分開心。我尤其貪看有關Diggory Venn的片段。根據Lord David Cecil的說法,原本Thomas Hardy並不打算讓Diggory和Thomasin結婚,因為”He had conceived Venn as a sort of benevolent, mysterious s ... (continue)

    http://mypaper2.pchome.com.tw/news/brsuny/3/1288281133/…

    能在誠品買到Thomas Hardy 《The Return of the Native》(A Norton Critical Edition)真是十分開心。我尤其貪看有關Diggory Venn的片段。根據Lord David Cecil的說法,原本Thomas Hardy並不打算讓Diggory和Thomasin結婚,因為”He had conceived Venn as a sort of benevolent, mysterious spirit , who appears, from no one knows where, to save Thomasin at the crises of her fortunes, and then, once more, vanishes into obscurity…….A happy ending conflicted with the aesthetic image he had formed of Venn.”幸好後來出版商和Thomas Hardy說,如果”Not only Clym ad Eustacia, but the virtuous Venn and Thomasin would fail to attain happiness. This would have meant that the book ended sadly for everyone concerned in it, and the public would not stand for this.”所以Thomas Hardy才改寫了結局。

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