The Return of the Native

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 08/01/1999
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780140435184
ISBN10: 0140435182
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General

About the Author
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) wrote novels and poetry, much of which is set in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex. His novels include Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge(1886), Tess of the D'Urbervilles(1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895). He published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, in 1898 and continued to publish collections of poems until his death.

Patricia Ingham is Senior Research Fellow and Reader at St Anne's College, Oxford. She has written on the Victorian novel and on Hardy in particular. She is the General Editor of all of Hardy's fiction in the Penguin Classics and has edited Gaskell's North and South for the series.