![]() In her introduction Penny Bouhmelha identifies the literary and classical allusions in Hardy’s text, in particular the parallels with Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and with the Oedipus story. She believes that her escape from Egdon lies in marriage to Clym Yeobright, home from Paris and discontented with his work there.īut Clym wishes to return to the Egdon community a desire which sets him in opposition to his wife and brings them both to despair.īased on the first edition of the text, this edition includes detailed notes of later revisions made by Hardy, glossary, bibliography and useful chronology of author’s life. ![]() Against the lowering background of Egdon Heath, fiery Eustacia Vye passes her days, wishing only for passionate love. ![]() Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision of a love struggling to overcome prejudice and rejection, The Return of the Native is edited in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Penny Bouhmelha. ![]()
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