Description

Author:  Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Pocket 20
Year: 1940 Print: 5 Cover Price: $
Condition: Very Good. Light wear. Cover crease

Genre: Fiction GGA Novel

SKU: 70124080E

Pages: 465

To be loved to madness – such was her great desire

Eustacia 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 and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.

Early 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.