01410cam a2200337 4500 71436186 TxAuBib 000818s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00064719 9780375757181 037575718X TxAuBib HARDY, THOMAS. The Return of the Native / Thomas Hardy ; introduction by Alexander Theroux. 2001 Modern Library pbk. ed. New York : Modern Library, 2001. xiv, 426 p. : map ; 21 cm. Modern Library classics Modern Library classics An enduring tale of love, desire, and the universal longing both to leave one's home and to return to it, this novel is one of Hardy's greatest and most affecting works. Hardy's passionately drawn characters and his vivid rendering of their valiant but ultimately ineffective struggle in destiny's web result in a masterpiece of melancholy brilliance. 19990323. People with visual disabilities Fiction. Heathlands Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Mate selection Fiction. Adultery Fiction. Wessex (England) Fiction. Love stories. Modern Library classics. Modern Library classics.