The Return of the Native
by:
Thomas Hardy (author)
Paperback. Pub Date :2012-08-30 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics The Penguin English Library Edition of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life - music. poetry . passion. war. and all the beating and...
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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-08-30 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics The Penguin English Library Edition of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life - music. poetry . passion. war. and all the beating and pulsing that is going on in the great arteries of the worldTempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris. she sets her heart on marrying him. believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed. for Clym has dreams of his own. and they have little in common with Eustacias . Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them. in particular Damon Wildeve. Eustacias form...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141199740 (0141199741)
Publish date: August 30th 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
19th Century,
English Literature
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