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  • Published: 4 August 2020
  • ISBN: 9780099518983
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $24.00

The Return of the Native




One of Hardy's most renowned novels reissued to mark the 180th anniversary of his birth. With a new illustrated jacket in the beautiful Hardy series style.

'Tremendous...utterly absorbing' Independent

Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence. But when their relationship falters and her old lover Damon Wildeve reappears with an unexpected inheritance, Eustacia is faced with a series of decisions upon which multiple lives depend. In a world where misunderstandings can be fatal, Hardy’s atmospheric tragedy moves inevitably towards a disastrous climax on the brooding wilds of Egdon Heath.

'Hardy's novels hold a Shakespearean power of creating a unique world' John Bayley

See also: Jude the Obscure

  • Published: 4 August 2020
  • ISBN: 9780099518983
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $24.00

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