| Edition |
[1st ed.]. |
| Description |
viii, 500 pages 22 cm. |
| Series |
Norton critical editions |
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Norton critical edition.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-500). |
| Summary |
Story of Egdon Heath and Eustacia Vye in late nineteenth century Wessex, England. |
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Set in the vast, brooding heathlands of England, it lays bare the frailties of human love. |
| Contents |
The text of The return of the native -- A map of Egdon Heath -- The return of the native -- Background -- Composition, publication, and scholarship : publication of the novel / Richard L. Purdy -- Composition and revision of the novel / John Paterson -- Scholarship on the novel / Carl J. Weber -- Hardy's life and opinions -- From Hardy's autobiography : On The return of the native -- Philosophical ideas in fiction -- Letters to Alfred-Noyes -- On fiction and art -- From life and art by Thomas Hardy : The profitable reading of fiction -- Candour in English fiction -- The science of fiction -- On English marriage laws -- On writers and the state -- Hardy's poems : By the barrows -- The moth-signal -- The Roman road -- On a heath -- The sheep boy -- The bride-night fire -- The night of the dance -- The pedestrian -- A meeting with despair -- To the moon -- At moonrise and onwards -- Nobody comes -- Hardy and folklore -- Criticism -- Hardy's contemporary critics : The Athenaeum, November 23, 1878 -- The Athenaeum, November 30, 1878 -- The Saturday Review, January 4, 1879 -- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March, 1879 -- Harper's New Monthly Magazine New York, March 1879 -- Critical essays -- The psychology of the characters / D.H. Lawrence -- Why the novel matters / D.H. Lawrence -- The structure of The return of the native / Joseph Warren Beach -- Hardy's faults as a novelist / Frank Chapman -- Hardy's philosophic metaphors / Allen Tate -- Hardy and T.S. Eliot / Katherine Anne Porter -- The traditional basis of Thomas Hardy's fiction / Donald Davidson -- Hardy's use of literary convention / Lord David Cecil -- Pessimism in The return of the native / Harvey Curtis Webster -- Philosophy, image, and language in Hardy's fiction / John Holloway -- Clym Yeobright and Egdon Heath / George Wing -- Action and character in The return of the native / Charles Child Walcutt. |
| Subject |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Return of the native.
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People with visual disabilities -- Fiction.
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Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
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Wessex (England) -- Fiction.
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Mate selection -- Fiction.
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Heathlands -- Fiction.
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Adultery -- Fiction.
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Return of the native (Hardy, Thomas) (OCoLC)fst01356026
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Adultery. (OCoLC)fst00797378
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Heathlands. (OCoLC)fst00954018
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Mate selection. (OCoLC)fst01011691
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Mothers and sons. (OCoLC)fst01027007
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People with visual disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057466
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England -- Wessex.
(OCoLC)fst01242455
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Didactic fiction.
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Love stories.
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| Added Author |
Gindin, James, 1926-1994 editor.
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| ISBN |
0393097919 |
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9780393097917 |
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