Queen + Paul Rodgers. Return Of The Champions (2 CD)

Thomas Hardy's tragic vision of a love struggling to overcome prejudice and rejection, The Return of the Native is edited in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Penny Bouhmelha • Against the lowering background of Egdon Heath, fiery Eustacia Vye passes her days, wishing only for passionate love. She believes that her escape from Egdon lies in marriage to Clym Yeobright, home from Paris and discontented with his work there. But Clym wishes to return to the Egdon community; a desire which sets him in opposition to his wife and brings them both to despair • Based on the first edition of the text, this edition includes detailed notes of later revisions made by Hardy, glossary, bibliography and useful chronology of author's life. In her introduction Penny Bouhmelha identifies the literary and classical allusions in Hardy's text, in particular the parallels with Flaubert's Madame Bovary and with the Oedipus story

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. "The Return of the Native" illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies. Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia's. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them: Damon Wildeve, Eustacia's former lover, Clym's mother and his cousin Thomasin

"Возвращение туземца" широко признано наиболее репрезентативным из уэссекских романов Томаса Харди. Он напоминает о мрачном присутствии и угрожающей красоте Эгдон-Хита, протягивая руку, чтобы прикоснуться к жизням и судьбам всех, кто здесь живет. Центральной фигурой является Клайм Ибрайт, вернувшийся "туземец", и история повествует о его любви к красивой, но капризной Юстасии Вай • По мере развития повествования и того, как персонаж за персонажем движутся к саморазрушению, присутствие Хита становится всеобъемлющим, в то время как Клайм становится странствующим проповедником в попытке смягчить свою вину • Книга на английском языке • The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath - reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who dwell on it