The Return of the Native (Annotated)

Set on the brooding expanse of Egdon Heath, The Return of the Native is one of Thomas Hardy's most powerful studies of desire, fate, and human limitation. Its plot turns on Clym Yeobright's return from Paris, Eustacia Vye's hunger for escape, and the tragic misunderstandings that bind them to a landscape at once primitive, indifferent, and symbolic. Written in Hardy's richly descriptive, tragic mo...