The Return of the Native - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas; Smiley, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451527380 ISBN 13: 9780451527387

Verlag: Signet, 1999

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A new introduction by Jane Smiley and a revised bibliography complement this edition of Hardy's classic novel about the stormy marriage between idealist Clym Yeobright and the discontented Eustacia Vye, who dreams of escaping the provincial English countryside. Reprint.

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Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels—Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure—he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet’s Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy.

Jane Smiley's ten works of fiction include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Moo, A Thousand Acres (which won the Pulitzer Prize), and most recently the bestselling Horse Heaven.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Signet
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0451527380
• ISBN 13: 9780451527387
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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