{"product_id":"the-return-of-the-native-by-thomas-hardy-9780199537044","title":"The Return of the Native","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"To be loved to madness - such was her great desire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for \"music, poetry, passion, war\". She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions. Her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEarly readers responded to Hardy's \"insatiably observant\" descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the \"real stuff of tragedy\". For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition, without the later changes that substantially altered Hardy's original intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648101433580,"sku":"9780199537044","price":33.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780199537044-the-return-of-the-native.jpg?v=1779249747","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-return-of-the-native-by-thomas-hardy-9780199537044","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}