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line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">One
of Hardy^s classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The
Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery
Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from
Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native,
" home from Paris and discontented with his work there. Clym wishes to
remain in Egdon, however -- a desire that sets him in opposition to his wife
and brings them both to despair. Behind the narrative of The Return of the
Native lie the tragic fates of Flaubert^s Madame Bovary and Oedipus, and in
writing the novel Hardy endowed his ordinary characters with the status of
tragic heroes, seen especially in the ill-fated lovers and Damon Wildeve, who
spoil their chances to master their own destinies. The Introduction and Notes
featured in this new edition incorporate the most up-to-date scholarship on
Thomas Hardy.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Thomas Hardy</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:
EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> was on 2 June 1840, Stinsford, United
Kingdom. He was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the
tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his
poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He died 11
January 1928, Dorchester, United Kingdom.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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