'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.
This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition.
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By:
Thomas Hardy Introduction by:
John Bayley Imprint: Everyman Hardcovers Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: New edition Dimensions:
Height: 212mm,
Width: 135mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 592g ISBN:9781857151169 ISBN 10: 185715116X Series:Everyman's Library CLASSICS Pages: 544 Publication Date:15 November 1992 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
