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''To be loved to madness - such was her great desire''Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for ''music, poetry, passion, war''. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.Early readers responded to Hardy''s ''insatiably observant'' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the ''real stuff of tragedy''. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume r

The Return of the Native

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    A Paperback / softback by Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell, Nancy Barrineau

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 14/08/2008
      ISBN13: 9780199537044, 978-0199537044
      ISBN10: 0199537046
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      ''To be loved to madness - such was her great desire''Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for ''music, poetry, passion, war''. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.Early readers responded to Hardy''s ''insatiably observant'' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the ''real stuff of tragedy''. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume r

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