{"product_id":"the-return-of-the-native-paperback","title":"The Return of the Native - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne 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 fianc , 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Alexander Theroux asserts in his Introduction, Hardy was \"committed to the deep expression of  nature's] ironic chaos and strange apathy, even hostility, toward man.\"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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. \u003cbr\u003eAs Alexander Theroux asserts in his Introduction, Hardy was \"committed to the deep expression of [nature's] ironic chaos and strange apathy, even hostility, toward man.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101532983519,"sku":"9780375757181","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/nfsGgW1YPi9780375757181.webp?v=1781071673","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-return-of-the-native-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}