Item #2324803 The Return of the Native (The Modern Library, No. 121). Thomas Hardy.

The Return of the Native (The Modern Library, No. 121)

New York: The Modern Library. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good / Fair. Item #2324803

1944-53 printing, Toledano 121.1, binding/jacket style 8h, jacket designed by Paul Galdone, $1.25 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Very good in fair jacket. Large shallow chip from front jacket edge and minor loss from jacket corners, jacket toned, a couple tiny spots on fore edge.

506 pp., 7-page terminal publisher ad. Jacket art by Paul Galdone. 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 fiancé, 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.

Price: $10.00

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