The Return of the Native (Illustrated)

This edition includes 10 illustrations. Thomas Hardy's moving, passionate and powerful novel about life on the Wessex moors follows the intersecting lives of Clement Yeobright, EustaciaVye, ThomasinYaeobright and Damon Wildeve. The fifth and perhaps most important character in The Return of the Native, some argue, is the setting itself, called Egdon Heath, which was once a home for ancient pagan inhabitants who spirits seem to lend themselves to the dramatic unrest which unravels. Like some of Hardy's other novels, The Return of the Native sparked some controversy among Victorian readers, this time for its overt depiction of a woman having an immoral affair.